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Diddley Daddy Lyrics by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley

The Super Super Blues Band

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[Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Cookie Lee]

(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)

[Chorus]
Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy
Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy
Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy (Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy)
Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy

(Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy)
Hey, ey ey ey ey, Muddy!
What? What?
You know where I met my baby?
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
What, boy?

[Verse 1]
I met a lil girl in the windy city (Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
(Yeah!)
Ha, yeah!
She was so good, so sweet, so pretty (Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
I loved a girl, oh yes I do (Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
Tell me baby, why can't you be true

(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
Hey, wait, Wolf!
What?
Can you sing that?
Yeah
I don't believe you

[Verse 2]
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home
Diddley diddley daddy, keep on doing wrong (Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
Diddley diddley daddy, you my baby
Diddley diddley daddy, you come on home (Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)

Well, I don't know about that, I'ma play mine
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
I'ma play mine
Go ahead, Daddy Muddy!

[13-measure guitar solo]

Hey, Muddy
Why don't you sing it?
Why don't you sing Diddley Diddley Daddy, Muddy?
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
Yeah
I don't believe you can sing it
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
Well I don't know too much about Diddley Diddley Daddy, but [?]
No, you can't sing it

[Verse 3]
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home (Hang on in there, hang on in there!)
(Diddley diddley diddley daddy)
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home

Well Muddy Waters, hangin' in there is fly as heaven!
(Diddley diddley diddley daddy)
Yeah, I told you I knew it

[Verse 4]
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home (Diddley diddley dum, dum, dum)
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home
Diddley diddley daddy, baby let me alone

Hey, Bo Diddley
Now you think you know so much
Let me hear you sing Diddley Diddley Daddy

[Verse 5]
[Hear?] me baby, if your love is real
I'll win your love if you only keep still
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
[We'll have lots of children?] with a smile on his face
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley) (You sound pretty good there, Diddley Diddley Daddy)
(Yeah, he sounds pretty nice)
[[?] about to say something?] say something out of place
(But it don't sound like it used to sound)
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)

[Instrumental break]
(Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley)
(Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy)

Hey, Muddy
Yo, Muddy
Yo, Muddy Waters
Now if you's so smart, you sing- you sing Diddley Diddley Daddy
What you say, Wolf?
I told Muddy, he's so smart, he sing Diddley Diddley Daddy

[Verse 6]
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home (Diddley diddley dum, dum dum da diddley) (He about to take it from you, Bo Diddley)
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home (You better watch it)
Diddley diddley daddy, bring it on home

How- how you like that?
That's alright
Bo Diddley!
Yeah, what can I do for ya?
Now that's your record, now
Yeah. Hey, look here!
Sing it for him!

[Chorus]
Diddley diddley diddley diddley daddy
Diddley diddley d-
[Bo Diddley and Howlin Wolf]
Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy
[All three]
Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy
Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy
Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy

[Outro]
Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy (Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy)
Diddley Diddley Diddley Diddley Daddy
That's what the women call me! (Bring it on home)
Hee hee!
Hey Muddy!
What you want?
That's what the women call me!
They call me [scatting into fade out]

About “Diddley Daddy” by Howlin’ Wolf

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"Diddley Daddy" appears on "The Super Super Blues Band".

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