The Troggs: “With A Girl Like You”

The song “With A Girl Like You” by The Troggs takes me right back to 1966. Reg Presley says of this in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: “I wrote that song while I was still a bricklayer. We recorded it at the same time as Wild Thing and either of them could have been released first.

He goes on to say, “I liked the way The Beach Boys were going ‘Ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann’ and it was lovely to do something like that in With A Girl Like You. We nearly had a trumpet playing it, but it sounded better when we sang it.”

(Source songfacts.com)

Enjoy A Live Performance of Troggs’ “With A Girl Like You”

I want to spend my life with a girl like you,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

And do all the things that you want me to,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

‘Till that time has come that we might live as one

Can I dance with you,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

I can tell by the way you dress that you’re so refined,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

And by the way you talk that you’re just my kind,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

Girl why should it be that you don’t notice me

Can I dance with you,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

Baby baby, is there no chance

I can take you for the last dance

All night long, yeah, I’ve been waiting

Now there’ll be no hesitating

So before this dance has reached the end,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

To you across the floor my love I’ll send,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

I just hope and pray that I’ll find a way to say

Can I dance with you,

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba