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any kind of songs mentioning waitresses, about waitress, or referring to waitresses?

― wendy (wendyswi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"the ballad of dorothy parker"

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

by prince

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tsunami - "Double Shift"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Human League - "Don't You Want Me"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

"waitress in the sky" by the replacements

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shania Twain - "Waiter! Bring Me Water!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jane Siberry - "The Waitress"

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pearl Jam, "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter..." etc.

Am I supposed to duck?

― wl (wl), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom Waits - "9th and Hennepin" ("The girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear/One for every year he's away, she said")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

His Name is Alive - "The Waitress"

― xnelio, Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bob Dylan's "Highlands" has a huge section with him talking to a waitress about drawing and feminism, doesn't it?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

'she works hard for the money' donna summer
has ms s herself on the cover of the single dressed as
a waitress but i think the song might be about working girls
in general, or ...um...prostitutes i can't remember.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Waitress" Tori Amos

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Truckstop Queen" - Rachel Sweet

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

"the waitress song" - freakwater
"i believe it's all a joke but i don't think it's funny
and there's a guy at table five who's calling me 'honey'"

― pauls00, Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

green pajamas - kim the waitress

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shania Twain - "Waiter! Bring Me Water!"

Please tell me this is a real song, and Shania Twain will become my hero.

I was hoping this would be a thread about The Waitresses, actually.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes it is.

Anyway, "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Working In A Restaurant" Dino Martinis

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Kim the Waitress," Material Issue

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Car Hop Song"-Wilma Flintstone & Betty Rubble

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

'piggy in the middle' The Rutles

― joni, Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Heavens to Betsy: "Waitress Hell"

and let's not forget the cover of Supertramp's _Breakfast in America_, though the actual song had nothing to do with waitresses

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eddie Rabbitt's "Drivin' My Life Away" makes the musical order, "Waitress, pour me/another cup of coffee."

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

RE:Supertramp -

As long as we're talking about waitress references that aren't really there - Remember the Brass in Pocket video.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ally - that Shania song is for real

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eat at Joe's - Suzy Bogguss

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Live also have a song called Waitress.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Lawyers, Guns & Money" - Warren Zevon

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wendy, AMG is your friend.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Road Goes On Forever"-Robert Earl Keen

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

i recall the pretenders' miss h. as a waitress in the video for 'brass in pocket'?

buck 65 reveals a secret fondness for a waitress in to say the very least:

they sit in your section
they think you're gentle & nice
you bring glasses of water
with lentils & rice
in old fashioned outfits it also appears
gratuities are greater when you don't wear brassieres
they give you their orders
and watch as you write 'em
wishing that you could be their menu item...

― j.a.e., Friday, 2 May 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Boy With the Arab Strap" by Belle & Sebastian has a little bit about a waitress with style in the quiet part at the end.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I believe Voice of the Beehive had a B-side called "Waitress Waitress".

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Underworld 'Dark and Long'

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

and who could forget SNFU "she's not on the menu"?

― pauls00, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

tubeway army - jo the waiter

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Old Joe's Cafe" by the Folksmen - there must be a waitress reference in there somewhere.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anna beat me to to the first I thought of. Underworld also have Confusion The Waitress.
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Waitress #13.
Loudon Wainwright III - Tip That Waitress.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyway, "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.

heh, i'm trying to remember the last time I saw a waitress there

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 3 May 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Any Ole Time String Band did a funny one, "I'd do anything to have my old job back again".

With the line "I'd even clean the floor under the old steam table."

― bflaska, Saturday, 3 May 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

the last time I saw richard - joni mitchell

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 3 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

aw, naw, haha, I think that's 'barmaid.'

: /

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 3 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Night's Too Long" -- Lucinda Williams
and I'll second "Waitress Song" by Freakwater

― chris herrington, Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like to think that most of my electronic music collection was inspired by waitresses, it's just nobody is gauche enough to admit it

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 4 May 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Country Girl suite or opera or whatever it's called. CSNY

― rumplestiltskin, Sunday, 4 May 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

5 chinese brothers - she's a waitress
funny song.

― jng, Sunday, 4 May 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Starland Vocal Band - "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 May 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Roches wrote Best Song Eva! about waitresses on their first album: I can sing you the entire song but can't remember its title -

"Dear Mr Sellack/Can I have my job back/I worked here/Last year/Remember?... I came when Annie/Was going on vacation/And I worked through till almost/September.... "

"Now, the only thing I want (the only thing, thing that she wants)/Is to have my old job back again..."

And so on

― Jerry (Jerry), Sunday, 18 May 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

Waiting tables ain’t that bad.
Since I’ve seen you last
I’ve waited for some things
That you would not believe
To come true, ooh ooh.

― gershy, Monday, 19 March 2007 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinky Friedman, Waitret, Please Waitret ("...come sit on my fate")

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 19 March 2007 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

That verse in "Big Ole Butt" where LL Cool J seduces the waitress at Red Lobster!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 March 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Then Brenda walks in on them having sex because he forgot Brenda works there too.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 March 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

And Q-Tip flirting with the waitress in A Tribe Called Quest's "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 March 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Psych Furs - "Dumb Waiters"

maybe...I don't really know what it's about...

― henry s, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle and Sebastian, and there's an Of Montreal song where he practises his Norwegian on poor befuddled waitresses..

― Finefinemusic, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Halley's Waitress: Fountains Of Wayne

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Roger Waters - "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking"

― vals tips for teens, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The Stranglers - Hanging Around

― zeus, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Bob Dylan: Highlands

The bit at the end when he's in Boston-town, in some restaurant. He has this incredibly strange conversation with the waitress.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, just saw that was already mentioned. Never mind.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Look
I understand too little too late
I realize there are things you say and do
You can never take back
But what would you be if you didn't even try
You have to try
So after a lot of thought
I'd like to reconsider
Please
If it's not too late
Make it a cheeseburger"
--Lyle Lovett, "Here I Am"

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

motorcycle man - john simon
(wish i could find the lyrics)

― gershy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"Baby Ride Easy," Carlene Carter and Dave Edmunds

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"The waitress' story" - Duffy

― Hedgerows, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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