Louie, Louie

Words & Music:

The Kingsmen

 

Yeah, these are the actual words to the song.  It's hard to believe our tax dollars went to several years of studying this little tune looking for subversive & pornographic lyrics.  But that's what happened when people with overactive imaginations assumed the worst after a teenager with a mouth full of braces sang into an overhead mike in a garage and the result became a one-hit wonder.  Gotta love the '60s.

 

A   D   Em   D  [riff for whole song]

 

CHORUS:

Louie, Louie.  Oh, no...!

I say, we got to go.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

I said, Louie, Louie.  Oh, baby...!

Say, we got to go.

 

A fine little girl, she waits for me.

Me catch a ship across the sea.

Me sail that ship all alone.

Me never know how I'll make it home.

 

CHORUS:

 

Night and day, we sail the sea.

Me think of girl constantly.

On the ship, I dream she there.

I smell the rose in her hair.

 

CHORUS:

 

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE

 

Me see Jamaica & the moon above.

It won't be long, me see my love.

To take her in my arms again.

I'll tell her I'll never leave her then.

 

CHORUS:

 




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