# ID a song?  Swing/big band era

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-song-swing-big-band-era/481964>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 19, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-song-swing-big-band-era/481964 "2009-01-19T08:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-song-swing-big-band-era/481964/1 "2009-01-19T08:20:45Z")

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The lyrics are something like “A doe is a buck/a buck is dough” and “a chick is a dame/but a dame is a chick” with the line at the end of the verse being “It doesn’t make any sense.”

Sorry there’s so little to work with, but I didn’t actually hear the song - my boyfriend heard it on NPR (KUOW in Seattle) while he was trying to take a nap yesterday.