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Mercedes Benz is een a capella lied uit 1970 geschreven door de Amerikaanse zangeres Janis Joplin met medewerking van Michael McClure en Bob Neuwirth.

"Mercedes Benz" is an a cappella song written by the American singer Janis Joplin with Bob Neuwirth and the poet Michael McClure. The song was originally recorded by Joplin.

The song has a strong anti-consumerism message, which was a popular theme in the 1960's counterculture. It opens with Joplin sarcastically announcing "a song of great social and political import", and then satirically depicts an earnest prayer for, amongst other things, luxury material goods.

When the song was later used in an actual Mercedes-Benz commercial, author of the original poem, McClure, said he refused to watch it and would never drive one.