Editing Poor Poor Pitiful Me (section)

===Background===
[[Linda Ronstadt]] recorded a gender-altered version of the song in 1977. Ronstadt would recall [[Jackson Browne]] had pitched "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" to her, teaching it to her in the living room of her Malibu home.<ref>{{cite book
| first=Linda 
| last=Ronstadt
| year=2013
| title=Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
| edition=1st hardcover
| publisher=Simon & Schuster
| location= New York
| pages=63
| isbn=978-1-4516-6872-8}}</ref> "The verse in “Poor Pitiful Me” was “I met a girl on the [[Sunset Strip]],” I think, “She asked me if I’d beat her / She took me up to her hotel room / And wrecked my mojo heater.” It was really funny, and I'm saying to Jackson, “I can’t sing those words, man! That’s not who I am. . . . I have to leave that part out.”<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/10/linda-ronstadt-parkinsons-listening-singing|title=Linda Ronstadt: I Know When Parkinson's Hit from Listening to My Own Singing|last=Maiscott|first=Mary Lyn|date=October 28, 2013|magazine=Vanity Fair|language=en|access-date=March 26, 2018}}</ref> 

With Zevon's blessing, Ronstadt replaced the verse with “Well I met a boy in the [[Vieux Carré]] / Down in [[Yokohama]] / He picked me up and he threw me down / Saying "Please don't hurt me Mama!".” This verse was also used in Clark's version of the song.

Ronstadt's interpretation was produced by [[Peter Asher]] for her multi-platinum album ''[[Simple Dreams]].'' Ronstadt's live version appeared on the [[soundtrack album]] to the 1978 movie ''[[FM (soundtrack)|FM]]'', while the studio version was included on her platinum-plus album ''[[Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (Linda Ronstadt album)|Greatest Hits, Volume 2]]''.