# Losing sleep! What IS this song??

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 12, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-sleep-what-is-this-song/118571 "2002-07-12T05:30:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![OddTunes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@OddTunes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OddTunes)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-sleep-what-is-this-song/118571/1 "2002-07-12T05:30:07Z")

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I absolutely need to know the title and/or who performed it. Was it in a movie? It’s an Asian sounding song.

I don’t know how to notate music, so in this example anything below middle C is lower case, and a “-” = rest

D E D a D - - -  
D E D E G E D E  
D E D g C - - -  
C(1 octave up) B G E

(then repeats)

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**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-sleep-what-is-this-song/118571/2 "2002-07-12T05:42:33Z")

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Where did you hear it?

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**Author:** ![OddTunes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@OddTunes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OddTunes)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-sleep-what-is-this-song/118571/3 "2002-07-12T06:02:17Z")

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I heard it a few years ago when I lived in Taiwan. Probably on TV but can’t remember for sure. My Chinese friends all know this song, but they too can’t name it. It may be a traditional Chinese song, but the arrangement I recall was very contemporary sounding.