What I'd Say

What I'd Say

Song Information

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Artist: Ray Charles
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics/Vocals: Ray Charles
Album: What'd I Say (1959)
BPM: 162
Length: 1:46
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX3
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong
Come and love your daddy all night long
All right now, hey hey, all right

See the girl with the diamond ring
She knows how to shake that thing
All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey

Tell your mama, tell your pa
I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas
Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right
Aw, play it boy

When you see me in misery
Come on baby, see about me
Now yeah, all right, all right, aw play it, boy

When you see me in misery
Come on baby, see about me
Now yeah, hey hey, all right

See the girl with the red dress on
She can do the Birdland all night long
Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right

Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say
Tell me what'd I say yeah

And I wanna know
Baby I wanna know right now
And-a I wanna know
And I wanna know right now yeah
And-a I wanna know
Said I wanna know yeah

Spoken: Hey, don't quit now! (c'mon honey)
Naw, I got, I uh-uh-uh, I'm changing (stop! stop! we'll do it again)
Wait a minute, wait a minute, oh hold it! Hold it! Hold it!

Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey

Oh one more time (just one more time)
Say it one more time right now (just one more time)
Say it one more time now (just one more time)
Say it one more time yeah (just one more time)
Say it one more time (just one more time)
Say it one more time yeah (just one more time)

Song Connections / Remixes

• A cover of What I'd Say was released by Elvis Presley as a single.

Trivia

• What I'd Say's title is mispelled in the DanceDanceRevolution series. The proper spelling is What'd I Say.
  • In the DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX3 credits, What I'd Say is titled as What I'd Say parts I & II.
• What I'd Say is the second oldest licensed song in DanceDanceRevolution, beaten by He's A Tramp by roughly four years.
• What I'd Say is one of the most influential songs in R&B and rock and roll history, and it was ranked #10 in Rolling Stone'​s The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
• What I'd Say's graphics were made by Takahiro Nakajima.
• While What I'd Say's BPM is displayed as simply 162, the tempo is not constant, reaching up to 181.36 BPM.

Song Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2.

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	100 / 4	148 / 7	226 / 13	407 / 19	- / - / -	148 / 7	223 / 13	422 / 11	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX3	N/A	2	5	7	-	3	5	8	-

Other charts not shown on the above table:

• DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX3 Double BEGINNER chart: Total notes: 100 / 4.