Yankee Rose (song)


"Yankee Rose" is a hard rock song recorded by David Lee Roth. It was written by Roth and Steve Vai and was Roth's first single on his 1986 first full-length album Eat 'Em and Smile. It was recorded as a tribute to the Statue of Liberty in New York City, as the statue was completing a major renovation for the 100th anniversary of its dedication in 1886.
The song was Roth's third Top-40 hit, the first two being covers of "California Girls" and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody".
It also appears as a radio tune on the 2002 video game on the rock station "V-Rock". A cover of the song is the title song for the video game Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX performed by Teresa James.

Music video

The music video featured a prologue with a convenience store clerk observing various customers, including a newlywed couple arguing about a hotel room; a weasel-type played by Pete Angelus flanked by blonde bimbos, an obese woman screaming that her doctor says she needs to take a laxative, to which he replies, "Not in my store you don't!"; a woman he tries to hit on, as he notices she is buying breath mints; and finally, David Lee Roth in a tribal costume, who says, "Give me a bottle of anything...and a glazed doughnut...to go," and cuts to the start of the song.