Doris Day - Guy Is A Guy Lyrics






I walked down the street like a good girl should
He followed me down the street like I knew he would
Because a guy is a guy wherever he may be
So listen and I'll tell you what this fella did to me

I walked to my house like a good girl should
He followed me to my house like I knew he would
Because a guy is a guy wherever he may be
So listen while I tell you what this fella did to me

I never saw the boy before
So nothin' could be sillier
At closer range his face was strange
But his manner was familiar

So I walked up the stairs like a good girl should
He followed me up the stairs like I knew he would
Because a guy is a guy wherever he may be
So listen and I'll tell you what this fella did to me

I stepped to my door like a good girl should
He stopped at my door like I knew he would
Because a guy is a guy wherever he may be
So listen while I tell you what this fella did to me
He asked me for a good-night kiss
I said, "It's still good day"
I would have told him more except
His lips got in the way

So I talked to my ma like a good girl should
And Ma talked to Pa like I knew she would
And they all agreed on a married life for me
The guy is my guy wherever he may be

So I walked down the isle like a good girl should
He followed me down the aisle like I knew he would
Because a guy is a guy wherever he may be
And now you've heard the story of what someone did to me

And that's what he did to me





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  1. W.... L....

    Hes a good guy.

  2. u.... ....

    Tf this song is creepy as hell

  3. o.... b....

    The song is complaining about alot of subjects. She didn't even like his face but her parents said marry him. And he didn't let her go and was No gentleman but "a guy is a guy". This song is amazing.

  4. J.... K....

    Ah, nothing like a sexual assault victim celebrating being forced to marry her attacker.

  5. A.... B....

    I always have loved this song. One day I found that we had a Doris Day album but the song wasn't on it, later I checked her records at our used record store and I still couldn't find it. I'm really glad that I can hear it here on YouTube 😊

  6. S.... A....

    R. I.P Doris Day.

  7. M.... G....

    Doris Day is a wonderful singer, but in any era the lyrics for this song are horrible. This song describes a stalker.

    M.... G....

    THANK YOU! At least someone else thinls that too. No disrespect to her memory and regardless I've loved this song since I was a kid. (My parents listened to Golden Oldies). When I regeard it again for the first time as an adult today I was like HOLY CRAP! How is ANY part of that story good?

    M.... G....

    It's not even debatable. She doesn't recognize his face (his face was strange) but he follows her all the way home.(up the street, up the stairs, right to her door) I love Doris too but daaaannnngggg...

  8. T.... M....

    I always loved this Song VERY Much - since i was a young Boy ---- now i´m 50 this Year and i´m very Sad that Doris Day is gone ;-(((( Goodbye Doris Kappelhoff. I have you forever in my Heart:o)))) Greetings from Berlin - Germany ;-(((((((((((

  9. F.... L....

    You were one of a kind. A vanishing generation representing the good old days.
    Thank you Doris.

  10. 8.... ....

    Another American icon passes from the scene. What a better time when Doris Day was a star. Also, love the lyrics of this song. Play it for your favorite feminist/SJW.

    8.... ....

    You do realize she was raped in this song.....listen to the words.....

    8.... ....

    @J M Oh get stuffed.

    8.... ....

    Lmao, local man knows it's about rape but buckles down and commits to his creepy ass lyrics.

  11. D.... P....

    RIP Doris Day 1922-2019

  12. S.... C....

    Rest in peace Mrs. Day❤

  13. C.... K....

    Sweet lord, rape played over the radio

  14. M.... H....

    A voice like no other. Absolutely beautiful.

  15. D.... C....

    I love Doris, but YIKES!

  16. A.... S....

    LOL this song scares the crap outta me 😅😂

    A.... S....

    The happiest stalker song ever! And then her parents made her marry a stranger!

  17. Z.... M....

    What the actual fuck, this is barbaric!

  18. m.... m....

    very nice 👍

  19. b.... ....

    This is ok? But "Baby It's Cold Outside" is barred?

  20. d.... ....

    Glad I didn't live 60 years ago

    d.... ....

    @Callus Klaus No Joke, kids practiced getting under the desk, Our neighborhood on a military base practiced evacuating to undisclosed location. 18 titan missile silos surrounding the city. Nukes cold war, no joke. I still think it was a better environment than todays reality. of course I would miss the computer and instant gratification :)

    d.... ....

    @Lloyd Hudson people were losing their jobs, being imprisoned, being murdered for being suspected to be communists. A 14 year old black child was lynched for a false accusation of sexual harassment. Women weren't allowed to have credit cards without permission of their husbands. My grandmother wasn't allowed to vote because she was native. Times were not better back then dude.

    d.... ....

    @your mom says trans rights I don't know where you were then, but certainly not where I was.
    It was commonplace to go downtown AT NIGHT and alone and not feel in danger. The parks were full of kids playing and families enjoying themselves. The drive home in the "rush hour" on regular streets at 30 MPH was a little longer _ there might be 7 or 8 cars at each traffic light. People actually drove at or under the speed limit! And most unbelievable - were courteous!

    School kids were clean and courteous, neatly dressed and clean, walked, rode bikes or took a city bus or streetcar to school and never felt in danger.

    And never heard of a drive by shooting.

    Movies were under 25 cents for kids, and parents did not fear what they were seeing.

    Streets were clean, maintained and mowed.


    83 year old city boy

    d.... ....

    @Cliff Hammond I live in the second largest city in Canada. I bring my children downtown regularly. It's incredibly safe here. My children will hopefully never experience the threat of bombs flying overhead. Our guns are regulated so when my daughter goes to her kindergarten classes we don't need to pass through a full security detail. My best friend is legally allowed to marry the woman she loves and they have a beautiful son together. I gave birth in a clean, safe, hospital in a private suite and our biggest expense was snacks from the vending machine - and my children are perfect and healthy because we have pollution laws now - no more leaded gas, lead paint, birth defect causing chemicals in the water. When I worked outside the home I didn't need to drive home after work, because my half hour walk was so pleasant, it was a lovely half hour stroll through a park. I can vote, own my own property, get my own credit cards (all of this would have been illegal if I had been alive years ago). Life is better for most people now.

    d.... ....

    @Cliff Hammond if you lived back then, then you might know the story of Sylvia Likens and the horrible torture that happened to her in the 60's

  21. J.... A....

    These lyrics are pretty fucked up

  22. F.... M....

    Our grand-grand-parents looks more amazing then our parents. Where does the world fall down?

    F.... M....

    @Magda 1234 Right. But until then, what do you think is happening in this song?

    F.... M....

    ​@Zizi Mugen First all everything is happening in the times, when wearing pants was not common around women, and guy's attractiveness was defined by his manners.
    Around 1940 I imagine.
    A beauty woman in her 20s is going home from a walk or maybe a small party. She is indeed followed by a man, but being conscious of her attractiveness this fact does not surprise her (maybe she is even slowing her gait from time to time so the guy doesn't lose her from his sight).
    "...like I knew he would, because a guy is a guy" - she is now telling about how predictible are men - if they see a pretty woman they will do everything to get her attention.
    "I never saw the boy before (...) but his manner was familiar". Maybe she saw him in the park or at the party but didn't see his face, yet she could see his moves and now she's starting to remember him.

    Years ago, if a man was attracted by a woman, she would be flattered and happy about it. The man was the one to initiate something/make the 1st move, and later ask the girl's father for her hand. This is kind of the situation that we have in the song. Maybe the girl was on the guy's mind for a longer time and now he decided to show her his feelings.
    Now, I think that she didn't run immediately to tell her mom about it 😂, but they started meeting each other for a week let's say (things were going faster then). After that, they decided that they want to get married and the girl's family accepted (probably the guy was a well-known gentleman or a boy from a good family).
    That's how *I* see it :)

    F.... M....

    @Magda 1234 All I can think is to call bullshit on that. You're assuming some pretty crazy things abut humans, as if we passed through some portal in which stalking and potential rape were ok before 1970, but it got questionable afterward.

    Perhaps if you were to consider that women are often shamed for saying that they have been offended by a man, and shame is an undesired feeling, a woman might not tell of a man who is sexually offending her. The times were indeed different, but only in that they served men a lot more than today.

    You're sick.

    F.... M....

    @Zizi Mugen Even if I'm still not convinced about your interpretation, I understand it and respect it.
    But please, don't call me "sick", just because I don't agree with you :))

    F.... M....

    @Magda 1234 Fortunately it's not a matter of whether someone is convinced or not that determines what's happening in the lyrics of this song.

  23. j.... w....

    Beautiful, talented, and from Cincinnati, Ohio my hometown. I just LOVE her voice

  24. K.... ....

    ahaha holy shit this song is hilarious in the current day, fucking hell

    K.... ....

    Kev Dame Doris Day r.I.p.from Frankie smettem Middlesbrough's

  25. B.... S....

    long live for Doris Day and Queen Elizabeth II.

  26. f.... h....

    The song was written many centuries ago and is far better than anything in today's music.

    f.... h....

    Totally agreed, still enjoying in this song nowadays.. also D. Day's voice is gorgeous!

    f.... h....

    frankie hunter agreed

    f.... h....

    many centuries???? when then? in the Middle Age???

    f.... h....

    @frankie hunter It seems the song changed a bit (unsurprisingly) over the centuries, but it told a cynical story all the way from the early eighteenth century (knaves will be knaves, in every degree) right through to being a second world war song (a gob is a slob, wherever he may be). Then Doris Day took it and made it beautifully romantic.

    f.... h....

    It's plain awful