Wooly Bully The title is pure nonsense, but of course a few theories sprouted up to explain what the phrase "Wooly Bully" means. Our favorites: - An expression people used as a way of congratulating each other. - Sam's pet cat.
There aren't many lyrics in this song that don't contain the words "Wooly" or "Bully," but one line managed to capture a fleeting piece of '60s slang. In the line, "Let's not be L-7, come and learn to dance," "L-7" was an unhip person - someone just not with it. More literally, it means let's not be squares. If you put an L and a 7 together you get, more or less, a square. That's how the all-female punk band L7 got their name.
The song starts off with Sam the Sham counting off the tune, "one two three four," in Spanish ("Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro"). U2 appropriated this concept when they used a Spanish count-in on their song "Vertigo."
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