# Too pooped to pop... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 17, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308 "2009-07-17T04:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/1 "2009-07-17T04:32:04Z")
I guess it’s originally from a Chuck Berry song, but I seem to recall it being used in a commercial when I was a kid. No luck searching… Anyone else remember this? What was the commercial? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/2 "2009-07-17T14:31:17Z")
IIRC, it was from a song called “The Popcorn Song”, and I heard it in Tulsa in the mid 60s. That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/3 "2009-07-17T15:01:04Z")
Sorry, I have no info about the commercial. I question that the origin of “too pooped to pop” was Chuck Berry’s song. I believe the phrase was in usage before then, but I can’t say I’m certain. Does anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/4 "2009-07-17T15:36:12Z")
Wasn’t that part to Lucy’s Megameetavegamin spiel? StG ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/5 "2009-07-17T15:51:55Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Wasn’t that part to Lucy’s Megameetavegamin spiel? > > StG That was “do you poop out at parties,” IIRC. And then however she mangled it when she got vit-faced. ETA: Mangled version: “Do you pop out at parties? Are you un-poopular?” ---
**Author:** ![Coalcracker0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Coalcracker0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coalcracker0)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/6 "2009-07-17T23:24:01Z")
I sort of remember this as part of a song: Too pooped to pop, too old to stroll, hips getting weaker when he tries to do the something something… Maybe from the 60’s? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/7 "2009-07-17T23:35:20Z")
> [@Coalcracker0](#): > > I sort of remember this as part of a song: Too pooped to pop, too old to stroll, hips getting weaker when he tries to do the something something… Maybe from the 60’s? Yes, the song referred to in the OP, “Too Pooped to Pop” by Chuck Berry (1960). ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/8 "2009-07-18T04:06:18Z")
I recall listening to a 78rpm record when I was a youngster, probably the mid to late 1950s with the lines: _**Too pooped to pop, and I ain’t lyin’ Too pooped to pop, just layin’ here fryin’. My mama and my papa were the cream of the crop but I’m just layin here, too pooped to pop.**_ No idea who it was but it must have predated the Chuck Berry style of music. It was more like a children’s tune. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-pooped-to-pop/503308/9 "2009-07-18T11:12:59Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > I recall listening to a 78rpm record when I was a youngster, probably the mid to late 1950s with the lines: > > _**Too pooped to pop, and I ain’t lyin’ > Too pooped to pop, just layin’ here fryin’. > My mama and my papa were the cream of the crop > but I’m just layin here, too pooped to pop.**_ > > No idea who it was but it must have predated the Chuck Berry style of music. It was more like a children’s tune. It was called _The Pop Corn Song_ by Cliffie Stone. 1955