Skip to content. Other songs are equally iconic — but it's not always clear why they say what they do. But we're here to help. When he woke up with a hangover, he actually didn't even remember recording anything. Luckily his humble cassette recorder captured the beginnings of one of the greatest rock songs of all times. And this minute song was recorded when the singer was not completely sober. The accidental hit and the true meaning of its groggy lyrics has undoubtedly sparked a number of debates at bars and clubs throughout the years. Now we can finally put it to bed. They were in the Stax Records studio in Memphis; the singer was late so they were just kind of riffing on stuff in the studio. Booker T had been playing this piano piece, tries it out on the organ, and once again, the engineer was rolling tape.

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The lyrics are simple, and heard only at the beginning and the end. In , it was named the 24th-greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. According to drummer Ron Bushy , organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be "in the Garden of Eden" was interpreted by Bushy as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".
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