Tenacious D - Tribute

"Tribute" is the first single of Tenacious D's self-titled debut album.

It was released July 16, 2002. "Tribute" was the most requested video on Kerrang! TV in 2002. The song is a tribute to what Gass and Black refer to as "The Greatest Song in the World" (often confused as the song's title),which Tenacious D themselves came up with, but have since forgotten.It was later released as a downloadable track for the video game Rock Band.

Tenacious D - Tribute

This is the greatest and best song in the world... Tribute

Long time ago me and my brother Kyle here

We was hitchhikin' down a long and lonesome road

All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon... in the middle... of the road

And he said:

[Sung]

"Play the best song in the world, or I'll eat your souls." (soul)

[Spoken]

Well me and Kyle, we looked at each other

And we each said... "Okay."

[Sung]

And we played the first thing that came to our heads

Just so happened to be

The Best Song in the World, it was The Best Song in the World

Look into my eyes and it's easy to see

One and one make two, two and one make three,

It was destiny

Once every hundred-thousand years or so

When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow

And the grass doth grow...

Needless to say, the beast was stunned

Whip-crack went his whoopy tail

And the beast was done

He asked us: "(snort) Be you angels?"

And we said, "Nay. We are but men."

Rock!

Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah

Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!

This is not the greatest song in the world, no

This is just a tribute

Couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, no, no

This is a tribute, oh, to the greatest song in the world

All right! It was the greatest song in the world

All right! It was the best muthafuckin' song the greatest song in the world

[2-part scat]

[Spoken]

And the peculiar thing is this my friends:

The song we sang on that fateful night it didn't actually sound

Anything like this song

[Sung]

This is just a tribute! You gotta believe it!

And I wish you were there! Just a matter of opinion

Ah, fuck! Good God, God lovin'

So surprised to find you can't stop it

[Scat]

All right! All right!