My website on rhymes and chants received this query from Iv:

"I'm looking to find the lyrics to a military (supposed) chant from the movie STRIPES. It goes something like: Here she comes, just a' walking down the street, singin' do wa diddy, diddy dum, diddy do. Snapping her fingers and ? ......She looked good, she looked fine, and she really blew my mind... Now we're together every single day, singing Do wa diddy, diddy dum, diddy do.... Any clue as to where I might get the lyrics or the name of this?

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I know that this cadence is based on this American pop song recorded by Manfred Mann: http://www.oracleband.net/Lyrics/do_wah_diddy_diddy.htm

The website notes that "this song was a #1 Top 40 Hit and party song from 1964 "and that it "enjoyed a comeback when featured in the 1981 movie "Stripes".

I don't think I saw the movie "Stripes". Did that movie have Manfred Man's version of this song or a different version? And what did it have to do with cadences? Were the soldiers marching while they chanted this song?

I found a brief mention of this cadence in this 2001 post from Jeri. That's the only reference to this song or cadence that Mudcat's search engine comes up with. I can't find it on other Mudcat threads on cadences.

Perhaps the cadence has the same lyrics as the pop song. If not, does anyone remember any different lyrics to this song that were used as a military cadence?

Thanks in advance,

Azizi