I'd throw away the cars and the wars

We'll have a dance of Liberty, Liberty

You’ll stay at home and be alone, so why be lonely?

Satin and lace, isn't it a pity?

But I helped him drink his wine
Yes, he always had some mighty fine wine.

Gee, it sounds like Jack The Ripper at the Indy 500.

Wake me up when it's over!

This part is sung over and over and it's almost the entire song. A lot of other 3 Dog Night songs are almost as repetitive, like 'One' and 'Joy to The World.'

Has anyone seen that ad on TV for Club orange crush?The one in which there's a guy singing in a really wierd electronic voice?I could never make out much of it apart from this-You drive me crazy with your boogie-boogie-boogie.Yeah,that one.At least that's how the wierd little song USED to end.For some strange reason they've shortened it,so that now he concludes with only two boogies instead of the traditional three.That's the kind of inscrutable kacky stuff the back room boys get up to.It's almost as though you had a bunch of fat cat TV execs sitting around the table swigging their coffee and with nothing much on the agenda.So,one of them says something like-Say you guys,had a chat with a big money magnet type from the Club orange outfit the other day.Says it's high time for another plug on that juice.What say?-Sure,says the guy next to him,I guess it is.We'll get that crazy ad back on.You know?That one with the crazy dude singin'...What was that stuff?...Oh yeah,You drive me crazy with your boogie-boogie-boogie.[At which another big fat guy across the table growls-Yeah.Too many boogies.Let's slice off that third boogie.]Guys,that scenario,capped with that seemingly mega odd statement,might sound incredible to some,but I am very heavily read on the behind the scenes stuff of films and TV,including the decidedly strange notions that pop out of the execs from time to time,and that is exactly the kind of crazy stuff you will hear getting shunted around.I've provided this little intro to the main thrust of this piece Mama told me not to come,just to illustrate the kind of daft things that go on in the entertainment world as a whole.The insane runs rampant in movies,TV shows,TV ads,art,theatre,radio,literature.Yet,I have come to be convinced that it runs rampant most of all in the world of song.I've made an extensive study on many aspects of entertainment,and the nonsense song,and those songs which feature nonsense in part,have taken a very heavy beating from me on Am I right through literally dozens of writings.The sheer,unmitigated garbage dumped out over the years in the name of lyrics almost defies belief,featuring the ravings of the naive,the stupid,the insane,the deluded,the drunken,the doped up,the childish,the evil and many other figures of such warped singularity,and mainly because the writers of these numbers never gave their work sufficient thought and ended up populating their work with all the psychos and misfits imaginable.The disturbing thing is that in so doing,they were mirroring real life headcases out there just like their characters of ill thought out fiction.The guy in Mama told me not to come sounds like he's just stepped out of the stupidest county in Jerkville.He babbles about this decidedly odd party he's ended up at.I doubt that much Club orange got passed around in this crazyhouse-[They're yelling questions at him like-Want whiskey in your water?Sugar in your tea?There is much hammering at the door.He's suffocating with all that smoke and cheap perfume.He screams for someone to let some fresh air in.The radio is blasting the roof off.His girlfriend passes out.The place is pitch black.He talks of being terrified of the light being turned on incase of what he might see around him.He throws in that totally wacko comment-That cigarette you're smokin' 'bout scare me half to death.He sums it all up with this-It must be the craziest party there could ever be.]Sure sounds that way.Like I said I'll tell you something else that strikes me as crazy-This dude himself.I mean what kind of idiot allows himself to get into an insane situation like this?To totally ignore the better judgement of his elders?To involve his girlfriend in this insanity?To not have gotten himself and his girlfriend out of there sooner?To come out with what must rank among the top twenty of the most totally idiotic remarks you'll ever hear?-That crack about the cigarette.In fact,what we are confronted with in Mama told me not to come is,as I've said,a complete prat,maybe even getting near another of those top 20s-WORLD'S GREATEST FOOLS.Like,what's this dude got for a brain?An ORANGE?

A frog with a stash of wine? Where did they come up with that (keeping in mind that this song came out decades before a certain other alcoholic beverage used frogs in their commercials)?

Jell-O

Three Dog Night's "Never Been To Spain" was a 1971 #3 hit. It was their immediate follow-up to the #1 hit, "Joy To The World". In the song are shoutouts to the following real places: Spain, England, Las Vegas, Needles (a city in California), Oklahoma and Arizona. The song was written by Hoyt Axton.

a fast paced song,about a jilted man.