Lyrics to
Banapple Gas

Released by Cat Stevens in 1975
From the Album: Numbers |

This version of Banapple Gas was released by Cat Stevens in 1975.

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Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
Everybody’s sniffing it Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is stuck on it Banapple gas.

Does it do you good, make you better
Set you healthy when you’re bed-tied?
Well I don’t know if it makes you well…
But it must be healthy
‘Cause it don’t smell.

Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
Everybody’s living on Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is grooving on Banapple gas.

Do you know what goes inside to make it
What kind of strange spice makes it right?
Well I don’t know what kind of spice
But it must be healthy ’cause it’s sterilized.

Banapple gas…Banapple gas
Give me more Banapple gas
O-o…o-o-o

Does it help you smile more to wake up
Make you happy just to be alive?
Well I don’t know if it makes you happy…
But it must be healthy
‘Cause it’s certified.

Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
All the world is breathing Banapple gas
O-o alas!
No one knows what’s inside it Banapple gas
Oh Banapple gas.


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The lyrics for Banapple Gas are defined as the words making up the song released by Cat Stevens in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Banapple Gas have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Cat Stevens and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Banapple Gas by Cat Stevens if you think through it. 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 Banapple Gas" means the words set to the music of Banapple Gas, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Banapple Gas and the lyrics to Banapple Gas are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Banapple Gas, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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