# Help identify this song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/8044>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/8044 "2000-03-03T16:24:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![joemill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@joemill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemill)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/8044/1 "2000-03-03T16:24:00Z")

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There was a popular song in the early seventies, when I was a kid, that I loved. I can remember bits and pieces, but I don’t know the title or performer. I’d like to try to buy a copy, but I can’t identify it.

Goes something like this:

I told you once before,  
now I won’t tell you no more,  
so get down, get down, get down.  
You’re a bad doll baby,  
and I don’t want you around, around,  
no, I don’t want you around,

Once upon a time,  
I drank a little wine,  
was as happy as can be,  
happy as can be.  
Now I’m just like a cat on a hot tin roof,  
baby, what do you think you’re doing to me!

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/8044/2 "2000-03-03T16:28:00Z")

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“Get Down” by Gilbert O’Sullivan.