When it was recorded by the Kingsmen, the singers were inside a restroom. Crummy acoustics, ambiguous lyrics and word of mouth painted the song as a threat to American decency and morals. But the controversy made it even more popular... check out http://www.louielouie.net/ for the story behind the song.

One of the great urban legends of the sixties was that Louie Louie had "dirty" and sexualy explicit words.

It didn't.

But you simply couldn't understand them and a lot of ministers preached against the song from their pulpits, etc.

It was a mess.

ETA, here are the words to the song according to a Louie Louie webpage. They are essentially the way I remember receiving them from the publisher in 1964. The words in ( ) are the way I remember them instead of the underlined words -- but the differences are reallly minor.

Louie Louie
Oh no, me gotta go

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Louie Louie

Oh no, me gotta go



Me fine little girl she waits for me

Me catch a ship across the sea

Me sail the ship by me all alone

Never see how (it never go down) I make it home



Louie Louie
Oh no, me gotta go

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Louie Louie

Oh no, me gotta go



Three nights and days I sail the sea

(Me) Think of girl (oh,) constantly

Upon the ship I know (dream) she there

I smell the rose up in her hair



Louie Louie
Oh no, me gotta go

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Louie Louie

Oh no, me gotta go



Me see Jamaica, the moon above

(It) Won’t be long me see me love

(Me) Take her in my arms and then

(I) Tell her I never leave again



Louie Louie
Oh no, me gotta go

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Louie Louie

Oh no, me gotta go



We gotta go now

I said, We gotta go now

Let’s hustle on outta here (Don't recall this line at all)

Let’s go!

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You are TOOOOO funny!!! Well Rudey, of course we do because to quote Tom, "Hell I'm older than dirt!" Well, not YET but it's a commin' round the next couple of corners!;)

Me too Delt Alum. It would be so great to just talk about things past that have NOTHING to do with the South... you know what I mean. Did the Civil War impact EVERYTHING???

My last drive in movie was Gone With The Wind. Don't know what bored me more the movie or my date!:p

Yeah. I rolled a 211 and a 189 there one night with some AGD pledge!

JAM, I think I married my date to that last drive-in movie.