Linda Ronstadt - Poor Poor Pitiful Me

"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" is a rock song written and first recorded by American musician Warren Zevon in 1976. With sexes reversed, it was made a hit twice: first as a top-40 hit for Linda Ronstadt, then over a decade later by Terri Clark, whose version topped the Canadian country charts and reached the country top five in the U.S. Released as a single (on the Asylum label at the beginning of 1978, Ronstadt's version was the week's highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of January 28, 1978. It reached number 26 on the Cash Box Top 100 and number 31 in Billboard.