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Cracker: “Eurotrash Girl”

Oh, man, track #69 from Cracker’s Kerosene Hat record was probably my favorite song of 1994. Looking back, I’m not sure why. It’s not like the lyrics were particularly funny or even memorable. I think it must have been the beer-soaked chorus that made its singers sound drunk–even when they were sober. It was my freshman year of college, and I sang as loudly as anyone. Here’s an excerpt of my favorite bit (full lyric here):

Called my mom from a payphone
I said “I’m down to my last.”
She said “I sent you to college…
now go call your dad.”
And the waitress that he married,
well she hung up the phone.
You know she never did like me,
but I can stand on my own.

Sold my plasma in Amsterdam.
Spent it all in a night,
buying drinks at the Melk Weg
for a soldier in drag.
And I’ll search the world over
for my angel in black.
Yeah, I’ll search the world over
for a Eurotrash Girl

Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl.
Euro-trash Girl, (I’m a) Euro-trash girl.

For your further entertainment, here’s Cracker’s abridged video. 

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And the “ironic” Chicks on Speed version.

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And yeah, I guess I’m just in a Cracker kind of mood tonight.