The Doo Doo Song

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A useful wee song for every pub band, weekend axe warrior or impromptu folk combo-nation. We do what we do do, what we do we do... sing along!

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #18

Peak in subgenre #2

Author

David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick

Uploaded

November 24, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 2:58

Story behind the song

Up comes this guy, and says, what kind of stuff do you do? I say, well, we do what we do. And so I have the title for a song. Sure, we really only do twenty songs, me and Jimmy, maybe 30. This is a song for all pub duos, folk club casual groups, jammers and buskers!
The words were written one night, and polished up and recorded a few days later. The recording took about an hour in total. The lead vocal is Beyer M05 dynamic mike through a JoeMeek VC2 v2 Pro Channel, the guitar is my Lowden 0-10 miked with an AKG C1000S and played with a shaky egg in my hand. Then there's my Irish tenor banjo and a baritone ukelele, multitracked left and right of the main mix, and then there's two overdubbed vocals on the chorus, with different enhancer settings on the JoeMeek to suit the bass and tenor parts. Everything is one take, first take on a Roland VS-880 and there's some compression on the extra instruments and vocals, and some reverb on the lead vocal.


Footnote: Nov 2003 - I don't sing this much now, our session song guru Jimmy (mentioned in the song) fighting big C and after three years of the battle, but doctors ain't funny no more.

Lyrics

Oh we do what we do do
What we do we do
We've half and hour of repertoire
And that's enough for you!
We do what we do do
We'll play it all and then
We'll start once more where we began
And do it all again!

We know the songs that we know
Because they're what we heard
When we were young and sober
Enough to learn the words!
Well, we don't know what you know
And we don't really care
If you wanted karaoke
You should have gone elsewhere!

Oh we do what we do do
We never need to pause
Because we do what we do
We never get applause
Because we do what we do
We never get a clap
Except for Jimmy last month
And the doctor's dealt with that!

We do what we do do
What we do we do
We never need to practice
And we never need to tune
Oh we do what we do do
And when we've done it here
We'll go and do it somewhere else
Where they've got decent beer!

We do what we do do
What we don't we don't
What we like best is no requests
So please leave us alone!
Cause we do what we do do
And when we've played it through
We'll start again where we came in
And do what we do do!

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