Other Notes
The song was covered by Cottage Industry on the 1991 Bruce Cockburn tribute album Kick at the Darkness.
During their Maybe You Should Drive tour, Barenaked Ladies often inserted the "some son-of-a-bitch would die" lyric into their own song "If I Had $1000000".
Following their album Rattle and Hum, U2 reportedly rehearsed the song a number of times with the intention to record a cover, although this never materialized.
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