The composers of this song, L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine, were thinking of the song "Up on the Roof" and they wanted to write a song with that kind of lyrical flavor, about tenement living. In the song, the singer has fallen in love with a woman who lives in the apartment directly below his but has no clue as to her interest, so he asks her to respond by either knocking three times on the ceiling (yes) or banging twice on the pipe (no), and the chorus includes sound effects of the two choices.
Knock Three Times Tony Orlando A
hey girl what ya doin' down there dancin' alone every night while i live right above you i can hear your music playin' i can feel your body swayin' one floor below me you don't even know me i love you oh my darlin' knock three times on the ceilin' if you want me mm mm twice on the pipe if the answer is no oh my sweetness means you'll meet me in the hallway woh twice on the pipe means you ain't gonna show if you look out your window tonight pull in the string with the note that's attached to my heart read how many times i saw you how in my silence i adored you and only in my dreams did that wall between us come apart oh my darlin' knock three times on the ceilin' if you want me mm mm twice on the pipe if the answer is no oh my sweetness means you'll meet me in the hallway woh twice on the pipe means you ain't gonna show woh i can hear the music playin' i can feel your body swayin' one floor below me you don't even know me i love you oh my darlin' knock three times on the ceilin' if you want me mm mm twice on the pipe if the answer is no oh my sweetness means you'll meet me in the hallway woh twice on the pipe means you ain't gonna show oh my darlin' knock three times 2ff7e9595c
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