# Your favorite Elvis Costello song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 24, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-elvis-costello-song/735673 "2015-10-24T23:57:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-elvis-costello-song/735673/47 "2015-10-26T10:48:45Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> I couldn’t possibly name just one.
> 
> 30 or 40, perhaps, but not just one.  
> mmm

> [@Frank](#):
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> Well, sure. But there’s got to be one that when it pops up on the radio or on your playlist, that you sigh, “Ah, yes.”
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> Doesn’t there?

OK, OK, but I’m doing this under protest…  
Right now it would be **American without Tears** :

> [@](#):
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> Now I’m in America and running from you  
> Like my grandfather before me walked the streets of New York  
> And I think of all the women I pretend mean more than you  
> When I open my mouth and I can’t seem to talk

mmm

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