Weezerpedia:Today's featured song/October 12, 2008

"The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" is the first iTunes single and second track off of "The Red Album". The song includes piano, police sirens, and Rivers Cuomo singing in falsetto. Scott Shriner was particularly proud of the song saying, "The song 'The Greatest Man That Ever Lived' is a masterpiece that includes ten different styles of music based around a common theme."