Napolean XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away

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Comedy

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• coming
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• take
• me
• away
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• funny
• weird
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[Dragonion2010]

Very funny performance! :)

However, he is actually talking/singing to a dog, not a girl (which is kinda the element of surprise in the song).

[CamelheadStudio]

@Dragonion2010 Wow, that is really interesting, and makes sense when you think about it, thanks for the info!

[SquirrelyWrath92]

tat was frickin SWEET!plus whoever played the crazy guy was REALLY cute.=)

[SquirrelyWrath92]

tat was frickin sweet!plus the guy in it was pretty cute too.

[oplivous27]

Nicely done fanmade vid to a classic song!

[jeffboms]

nice it was today on the nederlands radio by gerard ekdom a.k.a. dokkter pop. very good acting to!!

[Hanzey666]

@Dragonion2010 Correct me if Im wrong...but I always thought Kim Fowley wrote and did this song.....Late sixtys

[nmrodriguez57]

im gonna make that cind of video because that guy is really inspiring and crazy.

:D

[superKermit666]

haha why are the top comments the same and frome the same guy?

[I8p3]

Good job. The first time I heard this song was in 1984 while I was in the Air Force stationed in Alaska. They would play it Late Late night and played backwards if requested on the Air Force Radio Network (AFRN).

[Dragonion2010]

@StupidPersian

Oh, and 4. The fact that it is revealed to the listener in the last verse that he is talking to a dog is the whole point of the song!

[Dragonion2010]

@StupidPersian

1. Jerry Samuels (who made the song) wrote it 9 years after he had been institutionalized and was not crazy at that time

2. The song was banned on several radio stations for making fun of mentally ill people; more specifically "Man going bonkers over lost dog"

3. In the last verse he says "they'll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt". I don't know what country you are from, but ASPCA is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and "mutt" is a synonym for dog

[StupidPersian]

@Dragonion2010 Actually, he is singing to a girl. He's just referencing her to a dog cuz that's what he thinks of her now. I looked up the singer and that's what he said :) He was quite crazy when it happened XD

[DallasTexasJeff]

I can still remember the very fist time I heard this on the radio. I swear, I thought it was a joke done by the radio station - I really did. Then after hearing it a few more times and they would announce the name of the "song" I realized it was actually one of the "tunes" in the rotation. We're talking late 60s here, some radio stations actually banned it from being played.