Albuquerque (song)

"Albuquerque" is the last song of "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1999 album Running with Scissors. At 11 minutes and 23 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever recorded.

With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about a made-up person's life in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after winning a first-class one-way airplane ticket to the city.

According to Yankovic, the song is in the style of the "hard-driving rock narrative" of artists like The Rugburns, Mojo Nixon and George Thorogood. Singer-songwriter Steve Poltz of The Rugburns stated in a 2024 interview that Yankovic had attended the band's shows and "loved" their song "Dick's Automotive", and "because of 'Dick's Automotive', Weird Al wrote the song 'Albuquerque'", describing it as "a direct takeoff of the Rugburns" and noting that the band was not credited at the time.