Get Up and Go

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"Get Up and Go"
Performance of the Rooftop concert in early 1969
B-Side	Don't Get Me Wrong
Released	11 April 1969
Recorded	27-28 January 1969
Genre	Pop Rock, Blues Rock
Label	Rutle Corps
Songwriter(s)	Nasty-McQuickly
Producer(s)	Archie Macaw
Last single	Hey Dude
Next single	The Ballad of Ron and Chastity

Get Up and Go is a song by The Rutles, written by Sir Dirk McQuickly and attributed to Nasty/McQuickly. They performed it live on the rooftop of Rutle Corps in 1969. Billy STP handled the keyboard work.

The song was controversial at the time because its lyrics supposedly referred to an auto accident in which Dirk's hearing was permanently damaged.

Release

• The song was originally released as a single with Don't Get Me Wrong as its B-Side
• The song was released on the 1970 Let It Rot album, movie and lawsuit.
• It was re-released on The Rutles, 20 Greatest Hits and 1.
• A cover version by Jellyfish Kiss was released on the tribute album Rutles Highway Revisited, in 1993.