# It was the third of September **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879 "2022-09-03T13:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/1 "2022-09-03T13:13:01Z")
A day I’ll always remember ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/2 "2022-09-03T13:21:24Z")
'Cause that was the day ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/3 "2022-09-03T13:54:42Z")
That my Daddy died. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/4 "2022-09-03T13:55:31Z")
I never got a chance to see him ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/5 "2022-09-03T14:08:20Z")
Never heard nothin’ but bad things about him. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/6 "2022-09-03T14:13:12Z")
Mamma, I’m depending on you to tell me the truth! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/7 "2022-09-03T14:37:32Z")
Momma just hung her head and said, son ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/8 "2022-09-03T14:39:17Z")
Papa was a rollin’ stone ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/9 "2022-09-03T14:56:14Z")
Where ever he laid his was his home ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/10 "2022-09-03T15:15:44Z")
And when he died ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/11 "2022-09-03T15:28:10Z")
All he left us was alone (one of the greatest lines in pop history) ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/12 "2022-09-03T15:32:21Z")
When I was a kid, I always heard this as “All he left us was a loan” Never made any sense to me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/13 "2022-09-03T15:38:50Z")
Papa was a rolling stone (my son, yeah) . . . . . (I always though another line was “wherever he led us that was his home”) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/14 "2022-09-03T18:52:51Z")
I think it’s “Wherever he laid his hat was his home”, which is also a great line. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/15 "2022-09-03T18:57:58Z")
But this was inter-Motown self-plagiarism/inspiration from Marvin Gaye’s “Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z4w6bud1Mag/maxresdefault.jpg "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4w6bud1Mag) ETA: I just see after googling that Norman Whitfield, Motown staff writer and producer, was involved in writing both songs. Maybe it was his line. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/16 "2022-09-03T19:07:06Z")
Hey, Mama, is it true what they say, that Papa never worked a day in his life? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/17 "2022-09-03T19:12:34Z")
And Mama: ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/18 "2022-09-03T19:36:18Z")
Some bad talk going 'round town saying that Papa had three outside children and another wife. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/19 "2022-09-03T19:38:30Z")
Pass the biscuits, please. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879/20 "2022-09-03T19:40:15Z")
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