A List of "Answer" Songs

I was listening to the oldies station, and I heard the song “Dawn of Correction” which is an “answer song” to the song “Eve of Destruction”

So I thought it might be intersting to see if we all could make a list of songs / answer songs

The Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
The Dawn of Correction (The Spokesmen)

*Billie Jean *(Michael Jackson)
*Superstar *(Lydia Murdock)

And of course Leslie Gore who answered herself :slight_smile:

It’s My Party (Lesley Gore)
Judy’s Turn To Cry (Lesley Gore)

Neil Young’s “Southern Man” answered by
Lynrd Skynrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”

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.”

Irving Berlin “God Bless America” answered by
Pete Seeger “This Land Is Your Land”

“Stand by Me” by Ben E. King and “I’ll Be There” by Damita Jo

The Roxanne Wars!

U.T.F.O. Roxanne, Roxanne
vs.
Roxanne Shante Roxanne’s Revenge
and
The Real Roxanne The Real Roxanne
plus about a billion other answer jams.

Who’ll Stop the Rain? by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Rain King by Counting Crows

Also

All You Need Is Love - Beatles
answered by
Oh No! I Don’t Believe It - Mothers of Invention

As well as Pure Prairie League’s “I’ll Fix Your Flat Tire, Merle”

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)

George Thorogood: If you don’t start drinkin’, I’m gonna leave!

George Thorogood:I drink alone; you talk too much.

AC/DC: Have a drink on me.

George Thorogood: One scotch, one whiskey, and one beer.

AC/DC: Have A drink on me!

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”.

Huh? How is this an answer song? What am I missing here? :confused:

Do you mean One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer? Which was written by John Lee Hooker, I think.

I’ve had a bartender poor me shots of bourbon and scotch with a beer chaser. Horrible.

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.”

Some of the responses are more parodies than responses. Like:
Leader of The Pack
Leader of The Laundromat

However:
My Girl - The Temptations
My Guy - Mary Wells

Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters
Up On The Roof - Also by The Drifters

Peggy Sue and Peggy Sue Got Married - both by Buddy Holly

The Heartbeats’ “You’re a Thousand Miles Away,” was answered by Shep and the Limelites’ “Daddy’s Home.”

Kind of a situation where the artist answers himself, since James (“Shep”) Sheppard was in both bands.

No Scrubs by TLC
No Pidgeons by Sporty Thieves

Liz Phair claims that her “Exile in Guyville” album is a song for song answer to The Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Mainstreet.” Personally I don’t get it.

“Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” on Chicago’s debut album. Later answered by a song on Chicago’s second album … “25 or 6 to 4”.