Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away

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"Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away" is a song, written by Sammy Timberg.

It was first recorded for the short film Musical Justice, with a vocal by Mae Questel. It was then used in the 1932 Betty Boop Talkartoons cartoon Boop-Oop-a-Doop. The chorus follows as:

You can feed me bread and water,

Or a great big bale of hay,

But don't take my boop-oop-a-doop away!;

You can say my voice is awful,

Or my songs are too risqué.

Oh, but don't take my boop-oop-a-doop away!,

The word "boop-oop-a-doop" is considered nonsensical, but it can have a risqué meaning. For example, in the Boop-Oop-a-Doop cartoon, it is thought that the word is used as a substitute for "virginity".^[1]^{[failed verification]}

References

^ Harness, Jill. "Happy Belated Birthday, Betty Boop!". mental floss. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

External links

Dont Take My Boop Oop a Doop away at IMDB
Dont take my Boop oop a Doop away Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine at Heptune
Dont take my Boop oop a Doop away at the Internet Archive
BoopoopADooin The Songs of Sammy Timberg at Scribd

[1] Harness, Jill. "Happy Belated Birthday, Betty Boop!". mental floss. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

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