three nights and days

when I was lead singer
for a group
called the donuts back in the late
sixties
we had two songs, no three.
we got to get out of this place
was one,
Gloria the other,
and the notorious
louie louie the third.
all easy songs
to sing, except for the later.
who knows what in the ham
sandwich
we were singing.
no matter how long
we listened to the kingsmen
sing it,
spinning that 45,
we never got it right.