The Words to Louie, Louie


In 1998, the Supreme Court acted on behalf of the Kingsmen, finally giving them the money they'd been denied by Gusto Records since their smash hit recording "Louie, Louie" in 1963. The words once inspired an obscenity investigation by the Federal government... until they gave up, calling it "unintelligible at any speed."

For 37 years the world, utterly dumbfounded, has pondered this enigmatic song's deep meaning. At long last, it has been rendered understandable by a crack team of PCM digital analysts (or maybe it was a digital team of PCM crack-analysts).

According to its original author, Richard Berry, the song is a sailor's [drunken] lament to a bartender that he must leave the bar to sail home to his girlfriend.

Obscene? You decide!

LOUIE, LOUIE

(CHORUS:)
Ah Lou-aye Lou-aye,
Yeah, yeah, say
"Me gadda go now."
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Lou-aye Lou-aye,
Oh, baby,
"Me gadda go."

A fork, a spoon, tuna waiting for me
Me catch the Chicken of the Sea
I ate that shit straight from the can,
Didn't make a casserole, man

CHORUS

For nights and days I had VD
Me think of girl constantly
Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks,
Am I just paranoid or am I stoned?

CHORUS

Fuck all da bitches and kill da cops
Shoot my Gat at this and that
Pray to Satan, kill your dog
Deutscheland, Deutscheland uber alles


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