# "Hold on tight, baby, doncha know Daddy's common?"

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 12, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-on-tight-baby-doncha-know-daddys-common/344106 "2006-02-12T13:11:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-on-tight-baby-doncha-know-daddys-common/344106/1 "2006-02-12T13:11:30Z")

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I’ve been singing–screaming, really–this line all morning long, almost exactly as if I have Tourette’s or something.

Thankfully, I live alone. Otherwise, I would have been told “Wouldja SHUT UP already with that shit!”

Actually, I’ve said that to myself several times.

Doesn’t help.

What’s the longest you’ve been unable to stop singing a random line from a three-decades-old song?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-on-tight-baby-doncha-know-daddys-common/344106/2 "2006-02-12T13:29:55Z")

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Which song is that line from?

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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-on-tight-baby-doncha-know-daddys-common/344106/3 "2006-02-12T13:32:59Z")

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I think the title is “Rosalita”–it’s some early Springsteen tune.

(And, yes, I know how to spell “comin’”, I just think my version is more amusing.)