This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
You need cooling
Baby, I'm not fooling
I'm gonna send ya
Back to schooling
Way down inside
A-honey you need it
I'm gonna give you my love
I'm gonna give you my love, oh
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
You've been learning
Um baby, I been learning
All them good times baby, baby
I've been yea-yearning
A-way, way down inside
A-honey you need-ah
I'm gonna give you my love, ah
I'm gonna give you my love, ah oh
Whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
You've been cooling
And baby I've been drooling
All the good times, baby
I've been misusing
A-way, way down inside
I'm gonna give ya my love
I'm gonna give ya every inch of my love
I'm gonna give ya my love
Yeah!
Alright! Let's go!
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Way down inside
Woman, you need, yeah
Love
My, my, my, my
My, my, my, my
Lord
Shake for me girl
I wanna be your backdoor man
Hey, oh
Hey, oh, hey, oh
Ooh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Who my, my baby?
Keep it cooling, baby
A-keep it cooling, baby-baby
Ah-keep it cooling, baby
Ah-keep it cooling, baby
Ah-ah-oh
Baby, I'm not fooling
I'm gonna send ya
Back to schooling
Way down inside
A-honey you need it
I'm gonna give you my love
I'm gonna give you my love, oh
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
You've been learning
Um baby, I been learning
All them good times baby, baby
I've been yea-yearning
A-way, way down inside
A-honey you need-ah
I'm gonna give you my love, ah
I'm gonna give you my love, ah oh
Whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
You've been cooling
And baby I've been drooling
All the good times, baby
I've been misusing
A-way, way down inside
I'm gonna give ya my love
I'm gonna give ya every inch of my love
I'm gonna give ya my love
Yeah!
Alright! Let's go!
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Want a whole lotta love
Way down inside
Woman, you need, yeah
Love
My, my, my, my
My, my, my, my
Lord
Shake for me girl
I wanna be your backdoor man
Hey, oh
Hey, oh, hey, oh
Ooh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Who my, my baby?
Keep it cooling, baby
A-keep it cooling, baby-baby
Ah-keep it cooling, baby
Ah-keep it cooling, baby
Ah-ah-oh
Lyrics submitted by kevin, edited by LedZeppelin31, LHGL
Whole Lotta Love Lyrics as written by John Bonham Robert Anthony Plant
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It's about his dick!
Way down inside, woman you need dick. I'm gonna give you every inch of my dick. Gotta whole lot of dick gotta whole lot of dick gotta whole lot of dick
wayyyyyyy down insiiiiiiide
WOMAN!
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i agree that this song is completely about wanting to or about to making love to somebody. but i don't see why it's about a "whole lotta dick." other than the sexy line "every inch of my love," i do not see any reference to the dick itself. whole lotta SEX is how i see it.
Your so right.
@SnobbySnobberson irs plants MO.. i worked witha girl that hooked up with him ,lucky 4 me her husband was my mortal enemy, i didnt use that fact much,ya sure
@SnobbySnobberson You got my up vote six years later. Sometimes you gotta call it straight.
I think this is about the Cold War when Reagen... HAHA. No i'm just kidding, it's about SEX.
"Way, way down inside, I'm gonna give you my love, ,I'm gonna give you EVERY INCH OF MY LOVE"
just think.
Chuck Klosterman asked Robert Plant in an interview why he says "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love" when he is British and therefore uses the metric system...lol
Probably one of my favorite songs ever... next time you're feeling down, try playing this song full blast while you drive with all the windows down... wail along! It just makes you feel so good
fuck yeah!
@ladykalilah It does not matter how i'm feeling if i put this on i just grit my teeth an soak in every last bit.
@ladykalilah best way to listen to this song. Couldn’t agree with you more mah boy!!
i think this song is about checking out that really hot hot girl that you know you got no shot at.....but if you had a chance with her.....she'd love getting fucked by you. its when you see that bitch that you would love to nail, but can't get it, cause she's not even gona give you a shot at it.......yeah man
This song is obviously Robert Plant boasting about the size of his cock.
lalalayousangtome is wrong. the "backdoor man" statement comes from another Willie Dixon song (i hope you know Willie Dixon mainly wrote this song) that the Doors happened to do. This has nothing to do with the Doors directly. Anyway, a backdoor man is a man who takes advantage of a cuckhold's wife.
Jimmy Page fucks me with this song.
@hippie-po-ruski It's like sex for your ears & mind.
You people are stupid, a "back door man" means the guy the wife cheats on with. The husband leaves for work through the front door and the cheatin dude goes in through the back door. That saying's been around for a while. man Led Zep are the best band in the universe!
Page's best guitar solo here. Earth shattering.