"Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 single by the funk/soul band the Commodores, from their 1978 album Natural High. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and the Commodores and it was the most popular track of the album. Cleveland Brown sings "Three Times a Lady" while hopped up on energy pills when the Commodores need a replacement guitar player when their cruise ship is attacked by Somali pirates and a guitar player is shot.