How Can I Sing Like A Girl?

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song name	How Can I Sing Like a Girl?
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Factory Showroom, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year	1996
first played	Apr. 25, 1996 (124 known performances)
run time	4:32
sung by	John Flansburgh (though not like a girl), John Linnell sings some backup

[edit] Trivia/Info

From A Guided Tour Of Factory Showroom:

This song is as much about freedom of expression as it is about how to sing high. Its title was inspired by part of TMBG's live show where Flansburgh had to sing in a falsetto to reproduce the sound of a sped-up vocal from a recording called "She Was a Hotel Detective". And so the idea of having "the right to sing like a girl on demand" was born.

For eight years -- the time between the releases of Factory Showroom and The Spine -- this was the only TMBG song in B major. Prevenge has since joined it.
The line "I want to raise my freak flag" is almost an exact quote from the Jimi Hendrix song "If 6 Was 9". ("I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high!")