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Poor Poor Pitiful Me
"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" is a rock song written and first recorded by American musician Warren Zevon in 1976.
With genders reversed, it was made a hit twice: first as a top-40 hit for Linda Ronstadt, then over a decade later by Terri Clark, whose version topped the Canadian country charts and reached the country top five in the U.S.
Warren Zevon version.
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In keeping with Warren Zevon's sardonic lyrical style, the song's verses deal with
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Linda Ronstadt recorded a gender-altered version of the song during 1977. Ronstadt would recall Jackson Browne had pitched "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" to her, teaching it to her in the living room of her Malibu home. "The verse in “Poor Pitiful Me” was “I met a girl on the Sunset Strip,” I think, “She asked me if I’d beat her / She took me up to her hotel room / And wrecked my mojo heater.” It was really funny