Pink Houses by John Mellencamp
Pink Houses by John Mellencamp

Pink Houses

John Mellencamp * Track #2 On Uh-Huh

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Pink Houses by John Mellencamp

Release Date
Fri Jul 01 1983
Performed by
John Mellencamp
Produced by
Don Gehman & John Mellencamp
About

“Pink Houses” was the second single released from the 1983 album Uh-Huh. It became his fourth of ten career US top 10 hits and Rolling Stone magazine ranked the single at #447 on their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list in 2004.

Mellencamp said his inspiration for the song came when he saw black...

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Pink Houses Lyrics

[Verse 1]
There's a black man with a black cat
Livin' in a black neighborhood
He's got an Interstate runnin' through his front yard
You know he thinks that he's got it so good

[Verse 2]
And there's a woman in the kitchen
Cleanin' up the evenin' slop
And he looks at her and says, "Hey darlin'
I can remember when you could stop a clock."

[Chorus]
Oh, but ain't that America for you and me?
Ain't that America somethin' to see, baby?
Ain't that America home of the free, yeah?
Little pink houses for you and me
Oh, yeah, for you and me
Ey!

[Verse 3]
Well, there's a young man in a t-shirt
Listen' to a rock 'n' roll station
He's got greasy hair, greasy smile
He says, "Lord, this must be my destination"

[Verse 4]
Cause they told me when I was younger
Sayin', "boy, you're gonna be president"
But just like everything else, those old crazy dreams
Just kinda came and went

[Chorus]
Oh, but ain't that America for you and me?
Ain't that America somethin' to see baby?
Ain't that America home of the free, yeah?
Little pink houses for you and me
Oh, baby, for you and me

[Verse 5]
Well, there's people and more people
What do they know, know, know
Go to work in some high rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico
Ooh, yeah

[Verse 6]
And there's winners, and there's losers
But they ain't no big deal
Cause the simple man baby pays the thrills
The bills, the pills that kill

[Chorus]
Oh, but ain't that America for you and me?
Ain't that America somethin' to see, baby?
Ain't that America, home of the free, yeah?
Little pink houses for you and me
Ooh
Ooh yeah

[Chorus]
Ain't that America
For you and me?
Ain't that America
Hey, well somethin' to see baby?
Ain't that America
Oh, well the home of the free
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Little pink houses, baby, for you and me

[Outro]
Ooh yeah
Ooh yeah

Pink Houses Q&A

Who wrote Pink Houses's ?

Pink Houses was written by John Mellencamp.

Who produced Pink Houses's ?

Pink Houses was produced by Don Gehman & John Mellencamp.

When did John Mellencamp release Pink Houses?

John Mellencamp released Pink Houses on Fri Jul 01 1983.

What did John Mellencamp say about "Pink Houses"?

John Mellencamp told Rolling Stone in 2013:

I was driving through Indianapolis on Interestate 65 and I saw a black man holding either a cat or a dog. He was sitting on his front lawn in front of a pink house in one of those shitty, cheap lawn chairs. I thought, ‘Wow, is this what life can lead to?...

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