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Woke Up This Morning, Got Some Gabagool, also known as the Gabagool Song, is a parody of The Sopranos theme song performed by YouTuber VideoGameDunkey in which he repeatedly refers to "gabagool," a reference to the way the characters in The Sopranos say "capicola" (a type of cured pork product). The song premiered in Dunkey's 2020 video "The Sopranos for PS2" and became the subject of memes as early as 2021 on TikTok, where it is often used as a lip dub sound or backing track to Sopranos-related memes. In July 2025, The Rizzler and the Costco Guys posted a video lip syncing to the song.

Origin

On September 28th, 2020, YouTuber^[1] VideoGameDunkey posted a video about the video game The Sopranos: Road to Respect on the PlayStation 2. About six seconds into the video, Dunkey sings a parody of The Sopranos theme song "Woke Up This Morning" by Alabama 3, replacing many of the lyrics to reference gabagool, a common mispronunciation of the cured pork product "capicola."^[2] The video gained over 5.6 million views in five years.

Woke up this morning
Got some gabagool
And then I woke up the next day and got some gabagool
Keep on wakin' up but keep gettin' different types of gabagool
I even got some gabagool from uh… Scooby-Doo
Woke up this morning

On September 29th, YouTuber^[3] lilsyntaxerror posted a video consisting of only the song, garnering over 620,000 views in five years. The song became the subject of memes and videos as early as 2021, although it is unclear who first used the song as a meme.

One early example was posted on July 30th, 2021, by TikToker^[4] @pictok92 posted a video set to the song that shows Tony Soprano's house on Google Maps and a comment under it referencing gabagool, garnering over 272,000 views in four years.

Spread

The song became increasingly popularized as a background track in memes and Sopranos-related content over the following years, especially on TikTok.

For example, on July 28th, 2023, TikToker^[5] @reformedvampire posted a video of themselves looking through a rack at a thrift store and finding numerous shirts that resemble Tony Soprano's, garnering over 1.8 million views in two years. The video's original sound, made by an unknown TikToker, garnered over 2,300 uses by 2025.

On March 11th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @dr.edits1337 posted a lyric video compiling footage from The Sopranos of the characters eating gabagool, garnering over 1.5 million views in four months.

On July 14th, The Rizzler posted a video to his Instagram^[7] and X^[8] accounts in which he and the Costco Guys (A.J. and Big Justice), dressed in mafia costumes, lip sync to the gabagool song, garnering over 9,000 likes on the former and 11,000 likes on the latter in a day.

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