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325:; and finally, David Lee Roth himself, shirtless, in the same blue and red tribal face paint seen on his album cover, head feathers and a loin cloth holding a spear, demanding "Give me a bottle of anything...and a glazed doughnut...to go," and cuts to the start of the song. 31: 519: 317:
covered-bikini, buying a dozen boxes of breath mints, who passionately rebukes the clerk's advances; an obese woman screaming about over the counter laxatives, to which the clerk replies, "Not in
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It featured a comical prolog of a gold medallion-wearing Indian convenience store clerk and various eccentric customers and their ensuing melodrama, as
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Despite the song's topic, there were no visual references to the Statue of Liberty; rather it was a band performance with much sexual innuendo,
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store you don't!"; a sleazy playboy in a suit (flanked by blondes in bikinis), played by Roth's co-creator
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on the rock station "V-Rock". A cover of the song is the title song for the video game
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The song was Roth's third Top 20 hit, the first two being covers of "
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Strummin' with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen
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It also appears as a radio tune on the 2002 video game
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Single
David Lee Roth
Eat 'Em and Smile
B-side
Genre
Hard rock
glam metal
Label
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
David Lee Roth
Steve Vai
Producer(s)
Ted Templeman
David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth
Steve Vai
Eat 'Em and Smile
national anthem
Irving Berlin
God Bless America
fire crackers
Statue of Liberty
California Girls
Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
Billboard Hot 100
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Rumble Roses
Rumble Roses XX

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