Hit "submit as is" too quickly. Miserlou is based on a Lebanese wedding song that Dick Dale's uncle, a Lebanese-American, would play. There are variations of the same song in Egyptian, Greek and Sephardic-Jewish traditions (none of which we are), so it was less odd than it seemed -- although we all had visions of Vincent Vega, Marcellus Wallace and maybe The Gymp in mind.
Neither my wife nor I are Lebanese