Edit: I too grew up in northen New York. We call it "Upstate" New York. The reason this song's lyrics were so hard to figure out is when it was recorded, they had the microphone close to the ceiling, picking up the music from below. Sounds bounces and made for a neat effect, but muddy up what was being sang. This song was really cool then but with the dirty words it got even cooler. Then it's popularity exploded when people came up with all kinds of new dirty versions of it. "Louie Louie (lyrics)" (Richard Berry) [The "dirty" words are the ones I heard growing up in northern New York State, except that I deleted the F-word, "fuck", due to the Communications Decency Act of 1995. They're similar to Dave Marsh's Michigan version - not surprising, since I heard mine from someone whose older brother was a college student in the Midwest at the time; for additional versions, try http://www.via.nl/users/tdg/louie1.html#dirty ... or go to http://www.netuser.com/~erp/Louie_Sale.html ... and order the complete FBI report.] CLEAN DIRTY Ah Louie, Louie, whoa no Ah Louie, Louie, whoa no Me gotta go Grab her way down low Ah Louie, Louie, whoa, baby Ah Louie, Louie, whoa baby Me gotta go Grab her way down low A fine little girl, she waits for me A fine little bitch, she waits for me Me catch a ship across the sea She gets her kicks on top of me I sail that ship all alone Each night I take her out all alone Me never think I'll ever make it home She ain't the kind I lay at home Three nights and days I sail the sea Each night at ten, I lay her again Me think of girl constantly I **** my girl all kinds of ways On the ship I dream she there And on that chair, I lay her there I smell the rose in her hair I felt my boner in her hair Me see Jamaica moon above If she's got a rag on, I'll move above It won't be long me see me love It won't be long, she'll slip it off Me take her in my arms again I'll take her in my arms again I tell her I'll never leave again Tell her I'd rather lay her again