Story Behind The Song

When I was an early teenager, I had the pleasure of helping raise my two toddler nephews (18 mos. apart). If I got "too rough" with the "roughhousing," the "victim" would say "quit it" and his brother would say "do it again." Everyone would laugh, and I would do it again but this time to the other one -- to the chime of quit it do it again. This could go on for some time. They loved it. On a different subject, when I was in my early twenties, my mother was trying to explain to me why there were so many more divorces at the time than in "her day." She explained that people worked so hard all day (in her family's case, in the cotton fields) that when they got home to their spouse in the evening they were very happy to see them and way too tired to fight. Making more babies seemed like a better idea. Anyway, I decided to combine both these ideas into a (western) swing song. I wrote the lyrics and the melody and produced a recording of it (which you may find on my music website, www.solidsterlingmusic.com, by clicking "song search" on the home page, scrolling down alphabetically to this song, and then clicking on the internal link). The version I am submitting here is an AI-assisted swing song (without the western). The lyrics are totally mine. The melody is an AI-assisted derivative of my original melody (I requested that the melody stay close to the original). When I "create" the song by AI, if the resulting melody is too far away from the original for me to consider it derivative, I keep creating versions until I am totally satisfied (high standards) with the melody and that it is derivative under copyright law and under my sense of propriety as to what is an appropriate use of AI. Thank you for listening.

Lyrics

VERSE
We've been plowin' hard rows for most of our lives
We've never thought it was a great sacrifice
'Cause at the end of the day, alone me and you
Now, brother, we know what to do

CHORUS
I said quit it (quit it) -- do it again
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
I'm countin' to ten
I said quit it (quit it) -- do it again
Count me out, oh, count me in
Yeah, quit it, oh, baby, do it again

VERSE
I've been thinkin' quite a bit 'bout women and men
How they get together, then in no time it ends
We work so hard all day that when I do see you
You turn me every color but blue

Repeat CHORUS/BRIDGE
It seems to me there's too much time for foolin' around
'Cause who you wind up foolin' is you
All that social media can make you come unwound
But nothin' bothers us; we know the right thing to do

SOLO/Repeat CHORUS/TAG
Yeah, quit it, oh, baby, do it again

Words & Music by Don Tomlinson
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