"Mercedes Benz", also known as "The Politician", is an a cappella song sung by Janis Joplin, in which she asks the "Lord" to buy her a Mercedes-Benz, a color TV, and a "night on the town".

Joplin wrote "Mercedes Benz" together with the poet Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth, as a social commentary on how people relate happiness to money and material possessions. In the song she asks God to give her the things she has "earned". The song was recorded in one-takehttp://www.superseventies.com/joplinjanis.html.

Note that the song title, as listed on the album Pearl (1971), contains no hyphen; the automobile brand name is hyphenated.