Both of which were answered by Warren Zevon’s “Play it All Night Long.”
Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” answered by
The Youngblood’s “Hippie from Olema” ("We still take in strangers if they’re haggard) and
Kinky Friedman’s “Asshole from El Paso.”
He’ll Have to Go – Jim Reeves
He’ll Have to Stay – Jeannie Black
Last Date – Floyd Cramer
My Last Date with You – Skeeter Davis
Woman to Woman – Shirley Brown
From His Woman to You – Barbara Mason
Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean
Small Sad Sam – Phil McLain (technically a parody, not an answer song)
The El Dorados did a song and a prequel: Bim-Bam-Boom-Some guy’s girlfriend (mistress?) comes banging on his back door at midnight. At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)–She comes back only now she’s banging on the front door.
(they recorded them in the other order)
There was also an “Answer” song by some woman (I keep thinking the song is “Annie’s Answer”, but it’s not) explaining the woman’s POV and explaining that if he wasn’t a jerk, she wouldn’t be banging on his back door.
There was also an “Answer” song by some woman (I keep thinking the song is “Annie’s Answer”, but it’s not) explaining the woman’s POV.
There’s also Neil Sedaka’s “Oh Carol” to which Carole King responded with “Oh Neil”.
Well, first it’s Woody Guthrie, but aside from that (going off memory). . .
The original lyrics were much more cynical, and instead of “This land was made for you and me” they were “God blessed America for me” or something like that. The rest of the song was about hard times, with the refrain “[Oh, year]God [really] blessed America for me.”