# Help ID this punk song ("I Want My Mommy")
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 10, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090 "2007-08-10T00:31:46Z")
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090/1 "2007-08-10T00:31:46Z")
Really wish I could remember more than I do, but this is all I’ve got: I think I owned this on a 7" single, possibly on an LP, but it was definitely a record. Don’t know when it was released, but I picked it up in the late 90s (it could have come out any time from the late 70s onward). It was basically a Toy Dolls-sounding/somewhat Ian Dury-ish punk song, and all I remember is the chorus, which was “I want my mommy - waah!” (possibly followed by “Mommy’s good to me” after being repeated 3 or so times, but I can’t be sure). It definitely wasn’t the Nomeansno with Jello Biafra song with a similar title - more pub punk than hardcore. Anybody got any ideas from this skimpy info?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090/2 "2007-08-10T00:42:30Z")
Rolf Harris, who is not punk by any stretch of the imagination, had a song called “I’ve Lost My Mummy” which kind of sounds like the song you’re talking about. But I suspect it either is not it, or it was covered by someone else.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090/3 "2007-08-10T00:50:40Z")
If you want a sample, [here’s a direct link](http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00005BCHH002020/102-5892350-1512935) to the audio file on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Produced-George-Martin/dp/samples/B00005BCHH/ref=dp_tracks_all_5/102-5892350-1512935?ie=UTF8&qid=1186706681&sr=1-3#disc_2).
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090/4 "2007-08-10T01:36:07Z")
NRBQ did a song called…er…“I Want My Mommy”. Not really punk, but…
ETA: oh, here are [lyrics](http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:UumYHwtPSTAJ:www.lyricsdownload.com/nrbq-i-want-my-mommy-lyrics.html+%22I+Want+My+Mommy%E2%80%9Dlyrics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us)
(man, those lyric websites are evil)
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-punk-song-i-want-my-mommy/415090/5 "2007-08-10T04:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
If you want a sample, [here’s a direct link](http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00005BCHH002020/102-5892350-1512935) to the audio file on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Produced-George-Martin/dp/samples/B00005BCHH/ref=dp_tracks_all_5/102-5892350-1512935?ie=UTF8&qid=1186706681&sr=1-3#disc_2).
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Thanks, that’s not it, but it sounds interesting. I’ll check it out.
Yeah, **kneepants** , I found the NRBQ song on iTunes and listened to a sample, thinking that might be it, but alas, it isn’t. Thanks, though.
I fear this may be a bit too obscure even for this place.