Yankee Rose (song)

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"Yankee Rose" is also the name of a popular rock song recorded by David Lee Roth and written by Roth and Steve Vai. It was Roth's first single on his 1986 first full-length album Eat'em and Smile. It was recorded as a tribute to the Statue Of Liberty in New York, as the statue was being renovated at the time, and public interest in the iconic statue was very strong.

From "Yankee Rose":

Are you ready for the new sensation? Well, here's the shot heard 'round the world. All you backroom boys salute when her flag unfurls. Well, guess who's back in circulation? Now, I don't know what you may have heard but what I need right now's the original goodtime girl.

The song was Roth's third Top-40 hit, the first two being covers of "California Girls" and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody." It also appears as a radio tune on the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the rock station V-Rock. A cover of the song is the title song for the video game Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX.

"Yankee Rose" was also the name of a 1920s song written by Sidney Holden and Abe Frankl, and published in 1926 by Irving Berlin, Inc.