# Identify song from lyrics

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**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-song-from-lyrics/788869 "2017-06-13T15:23:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-song-from-lyrics/788869/1 "2017-06-13T15:23:48Z")

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Hey there! Reference librarian looking for help.

I have a patron who remembers a song from his youth. It could be from the 50s or 60s with a chorus that says (more or less):

Don’t blame her cause she left  
I wasn’t nothing but a hound  
I even had another woman  
On the other side of town

Ring any bells? A google search seems to indicate that there was no music before the 1990s, other than “nothing but a hound dog.”

Thanks!

Peter  
Southern Maine