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You ain't got to go home but you got to get [the expletive] out of here.

Variations of the above phrase are very popular and a common cultural reference — seen in many movies, TV shows and music lyrics.

What is the origin of that phrase? Who was the first to use it and under what circumstances?

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  The more neutral version (I'm not sure why you would choose one that involves slang or an expletive) is you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
  
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  @JasonBassford: Most times I've heard that phrase it was the slang version (containing the word "ain't") and roughly half the time containing an expletive. I don't recall ever hearing the plain vanilla version. The reason I included that in the question is 1. for accuracy and 2. because it might contain a clue regarding the origin. Can you point me to an example of the plain vanilla version being used?
  
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  You can start with this, which talks about the song "Closing Time" by Semisonic. (Which uses the lyric.) However, that's not the only song to use the lyric—and it originated earlier than that. (But I don't have a specific reference for its actual origin.)
  
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You ain't got to go home but you got to get [the expletive] out of here.

Variations of the above phrase are very popular and a common cultural reference — seen in many movies, TV shows and music lyrics.

What is the origin of that phrase? Who was the first to use it and under what circumstances?

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  The more neutral version (I'm not sure why you would choose one that involves slang or an expletive) is you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
  
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  Jul 1 at 6:08
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  @JasonBassford: Most times I've heard that phrase it was the slang version (containing the word "ain't") and roughly half the time containing an expletive. I don't recall ever hearing the plain vanilla version. The reason I included that in the question is 1. for accuracy and 2. because it might contain a clue regarding the origin. Can you point me to an example of the plain vanilla version being used?
  
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  You can start with this, which talks about the song "Closing Time" by Semisonic. (Which uses the lyric.) However, that's not the only song to use the lyric—and it originated earlier than that. (But I don't have a specific reference for its actual origin.)
  
  – Jason Bassford
  Jul 1 at 6:34
  

  
  
  
  

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You ain't got to go home but you got to get [the expletive] out of here.

Variations of the above phrase are very popular and a common cultural reference — seen in many movies, TV shows and music lyrics.

What is the origin of that phrase? Who was the first to use it and under what circumstances?

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Though made popular by a song in the ’90s the expression appears to have originated a few decades earlier and it was probably just what bartenders used to say to clients who wanted to stay after closing time as the following source suggests:

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” is what a bar manager might say to his last remaining customers at closing time. “In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was ‘you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here’” was cited in print in 1944. “You don’t have to go home (but you can’t stay here)” was the title of at least two songs in the 1990s.

5 March 1944, Boston (MA) Herald, “Stranded Tourists Discover Miami’s Palms Have Fingers,” pg. 19, col. 3:

• In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”
  

1 January 1948, Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), “A Correspondent’s Notebook” by Hal Boyle, pg. 4-A, col. 4
The sign said:

• “You don’t have to go home—but you can’t stay here. Happy New Year!”

1 May 1960, Boston (MA) Globe, Padlocking of Glass Hat Leaves After-Hour Drinkers No Place to Go But Home” by Arthur Siegel, pg. 72:

• A voice would call out, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

(www.barrypopik.com)

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  The line was uttered at the end of the "Bob's Country Bunker" gig scene in Blues Brothers in 1980. It was already quite popular before Semsonic came around.
  
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Though made popular by a song in the ’90s the expression appears to have originated a few decades earlier and it was probably just what bartenders used to say to clients who wanted to stay after closing time as the following source suggests:

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” is what a bar manager might say to his last remaining customers at closing time. “In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was ‘you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here’” was cited in print in 1944. “You don’t have to go home (but you can’t stay here)” was the title of at least two songs in the 1990s.

5 March 1944, Boston (MA) Herald, “Stranded Tourists Discover Miami’s Palms Have Fingers,” pg. 19, col. 3:

• In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”
  

1 January 1948, Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), “A Correspondent’s Notebook” by Hal Boyle, pg. 4-A, col. 4
The sign said:

• “You don’t have to go home—but you can’t stay here. Happy New Year!”

1 May 1960, Boston (MA) Globe, Padlocking of Glass Hat Leaves After-Hour Drinkers No Place to Go But Home” by Arthur Siegel, pg. 72:

• A voice would call out, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

(www.barrypopik.com)

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  The line was uttered at the end of the "Bob's Country Bunker" gig scene in Blues Brothers in 1980. It was already quite popular before Semsonic came around.
  
  – T.E.D.
  Jul 2 at 13:34
  
  

  
  
  
  

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25

Though made popular by a song in the ’90s the expression appears to have originated a few decades earlier and it was probably just what bartenders used to say to clients who wanted to stay after closing time as the following source suggests:

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” is what a bar manager might say to his last remaining customers at closing time. “In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was ‘you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here’” was cited in print in 1944. “You don’t have to go home (but you can’t stay here)” was the title of at least two songs in the 1990s.

5 March 1944, Boston (MA) Herald, “Stranded Tourists Discover Miami’s Palms Have Fingers,” pg. 19, col. 3:

• In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”
  

1 January 1948, Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), “A Correspondent’s Notebook” by Hal Boyle, pg. 4-A, col. 4
The sign said:

• “You don’t have to go home—but you can’t stay here. Happy New Year!”

1 May 1960, Boston (MA) Globe, Padlocking of Glass Hat Leaves After-Hour Drinkers No Place to Go But Home” by Arthur Siegel, pg. 72:

• A voice would call out, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

(www.barrypopik.com)

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  The line was uttered at the end of the "Bob's Country Bunker" gig scene in Blues Brothers in 1980. It was already quite popular before Semsonic came around.
  
  – T.E.D.
  Jul 2 at 13:34
  
  

  
  
  
  

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Though made popular by a song in the ’90s the expression appears to have originated a few decades earlier and it was probably just what bartenders used to say to clients who wanted to stay after closing time as the following source suggests:

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” is what a bar manager might say to his last remaining customers at closing time. “In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was ‘you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here’” was cited in print in 1944. “You don’t have to go home (but you can’t stay here)” was the title of at least two songs in the 1990s.

5 March 1944, Boston (MA) Herald, “Stranded Tourists Discover Miami’s Palms Have Fingers,” pg. 19, col. 3:

• In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”
  

1 January 1948, Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), “A Correspondent’s Notebook” by Hal Boyle, pg. 4-A, col. 4
The sign said:

• “You don’t have to go home—but you can’t stay here. Happy New Year!”

1 May 1960, Boston (MA) Globe, Padlocking of Glass Hat Leaves After-Hour Drinkers No Place to Go But Home” by Arthur Siegel, pg. 72:

• A voice would call out, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

(www.barrypopik.com)

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