“Knock Three Times” is a popular song credited to Tony Orlando and Dawn. The actual singers were Tony Orlando, Toni Wine, and Linda November, prior to the creation of “Dawn” with Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson. The song was released as a single in November 1970, paired with Orlando’s other hit song, “Candida” (also written by Toni Wine). The single hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971 and eventually sold nine million copies, also claiming the number-one spot on the UK Singles Chart.
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, tenement living. Knock Three Times actually sold more than 100,000 records a day in New York City alone for ten straight days. The song appears in several motion pictures including Now and Then.
The song was covered by Billy “Crash” Craddock in 1971 and became a number three country hit.
By Tony Orlando & Dawn
Lyrics
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Knock three time Hey girl what you doing down there ? Dancing alone every night While I live right above you
**I can hear the music playing I can feel your body swaying One floor below me You don’t even know me I love you *Oh my darling Knocks three times on the ceiling if you want me Twice on the pipe if the answer is no Oh my sweetness, knocks three times Means you’ll meet me in the hallway 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 ? |
敲三下 嘿！女孩，你在樓下做什麼？ 整晚一個人跳著舞 而我就住在你的樓上
我聽到音樂在播放著 我感覺到你扭動著身軀 不過是一樓之隔 你卻不知道我愛你 噢！親愛的 如果你需要我，在天花板敲三下 如果答案是” 不 “，敲水管兩下 噢！甜心，敲三下 表示你會在走廊和我見面 敲水管兩下 表示你不會出現 今晚，如果你往窗外看 將綁著紙條的繩子拉下來 隨信附上的可是我的心啊！ 請你了解我已看著你多少次 卻只能在沉默中愛慕著你 還有只能在夢裡 我倆中間那一道牆會不會倒塌？ |