Lyrics to
Baby Driver

This version of Baby Driver was released by Simon & Garfunkel in 1970.

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My daddy was the family bassman
My mamma was an engineer
And I was born one dark gray morn
With music coming in my ears
In my ears.

They call me Baby Driver
And once upon a pair of wheels
Hit the road and I’m gone ah
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels.
Ba ba ba ba
Scoot down the road
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels.

My daddy was a prominent frogman
My mamma’s in the Naval reserve
When I was young I carried a gun
But I never got the chance to serve
I did not serve.

They call me Baby Driver
And once upon a pair of wheels
Hit the road and I’m gone ah
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels.
Ba ba ba ba
Scoot down the road
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels.

My daddy got a big promotion
My mamma got a raise in pay
There’s no-one home, we’re all alone
Oh come into my room and play
Yes we can play.

I’m not talking about your pigtails
But I’m talking ’bout your sex appeal
Hit the road and I’m gone ah
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels.
Ba ba ba ba
Scoot down the road
What’s my number
I wonder how your engine feels.

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About Lyrics and Baby Driver by Simon & Garfunkel

When you decide to study the lyrics to Baby Driver, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Simon & Garfunkel. Some of the lyrics to Baby Driver have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Simon & Garfunkel and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Baby Driver if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Baby Driver" means the words set to the music of Baby Driver, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Simon & Garfunkel. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Baby Driver and the lyrics to Baby Driver are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Simon & Garfunkel who came here looking just for the lyrics to Baby Driver, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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