Lyr Req: be-bop, my lady, said love

Subject: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: GUEST,barney bones
Date: 25 Mar 03 - 05:34 PM

i have had this song going through my head for about 6 weeks now, i heard it on the radio at work but missed the title. sadly, i can only remember a couple of lines and that it sounds like curiosity killed the cat (the band not the song), although i'm pretty certain it wasn't them as i have compiled most of their back catalogue in an attempt to find the song.

anyway for anyone who likes a challenge here is the (very) little i can remember:

be-bop my lady, said love,
gonna fight for the right to get into your heart

don't wanna work for you no more

not much to go on i know but i'm just hoping that someone out there may know it. alternatively i am being very dense and it is quite famous. any help appreciated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Mar 03 - 05:44 PM

??and how did you decide a folk/blues site was the place to ask?

(bracing myself for the inevitable follow-up posts about not being 'welcoming')

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Noreen
Date: 25 Mar 03 - 06:20 PM

Bill, how did you decide that it's not folk/blues? *grin*

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: GUEST,barney bones
Date: 25 Mar 03 - 07:35 PM

hey, if you don't ask you don't get. looked like there was a chance so i appeal to anyone who may know.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Mudlark
Date: 25 Mar 03 - 07:59 PM

Sorry Barney, never heard it. But it cant be any worse than the request for "I Love You, a Bushel and a Peck" that has been on the forum for days now....and I have THAT going around in my brain, like an insane wasp buzzing in a spider web. No matter what your song sounds like, it's got to be better than that!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: JJ
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 08:03 AM

I dunno, Mudlark. Next to a lyric like "Be-bop my lady, said love," "I Love You, a Bushel and a Peck" looks like the Loesser of two evils...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 05:50 PM

To be Frank JJ Thats a terrible joke.AS worse as mine in fact.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Mudlark
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 06:09 PM

You guys are insanse ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: GUEST,Celtaddict
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 06:20 PM

Dick Swain says that the phenomenon you describe, of a song or line running interminably through your mind, is called an earworm. It is evidently from a German phrase, though what the German for earworm would be is beyond my ken.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Snuffy
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 07:33 PM

Ohrwurm? Ohrenwurm?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Snuffy
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 07:54 PM

And what happened to INSANSE?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 07:06 AM

Ohrwurm! (and we use it exactly in that sense as earworm)

Dieses Lied ist ein richtiger Ohrwurm

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 08:04 AM

"Bill, how did you decide that it's not folk/blues?"

well..."be-bop" was one clue. *grin*...The cutesy name of some band was another.
"hey, if you don't ask you don't get"...true...and if you go to your local Chinese restaurant and ask for Lasagna, you 'may' find a cook that does a Cantonese version, but most would not understand why you even asked.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Alasdair
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 08:17 AM

Bill is right. Folk people sing "fol-de-rol" where others might sing be-bop.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 01:34 PM

Ohrwurm/earworm! I love it. Still kicking myself for never learning German, especially since I grew up in Milwaukee where it was taught in every school. And me a Schulz (and a Koch) yet!

Gonna get some mileage out of this term (even more than dudelsackpfeifer or however it's spelled).

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 01:58 PM

Be-bop my lady, said love,
Gonna fight for the right to get into your heart,
Gonna fight for a bite, that's good for a start,
I'll be through with you before daylight,
But I'll score some more tomorrow night!

Don't wanna work for you no more,
I owe my soul to the company store.

This came to me in a dream. Hope it helps!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 04:52 PM

Ummm... probably not this:

http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?id=100253

and of course not this Beastie Boys one:

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~harel/cgi/page/htmlit?Fight_bb.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 05:33 PM

G'day Celtaddict, Snuffy, Wolfgang and Bat Goddess,

I believe the old English equivalent term, for both songs and tunes that ran round your head, was a "maggot" - and there are many dance tunes from the Elizabethan period onward named (Someone's) Maggot.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 06:03 PM

I just found this place -- does someone need the lyrics to "I Love You A Bushel and a Peck?" I'm old enough to remember that song, sad to say.