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Banging On My Drum

This version of Banging On My Drum was released by Lou Reed in 1976.

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I’m banging on my drum
I’m banging on my drum
Then banging on my drum, boy
and I’m having lots of fun
I’m banging on my drums, yeah
I’m banging on my drums
I’m banging on my drum, now baby
and I’m having lots of fun

I’m banging on my drum
I’m banging on my drum
I’m banging on my drums, boy
and I’m having lots of fun
I’m banging on my one, huh, my one
yeah, my, my drum
I’m banging on my one, my drums, my one
I’m banging on my drum
Yeah, I’m banging on drums, yeah
yeah, I’m banging on drum
Yeah, I’m banging on drums, now, now
and I’m having lots of fun, fun, fun
yeah

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About Lyrics and Banging On My Drum by Lou Reed

The lyrics to Banging On My Drum are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Lou Reed used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Banging On My Drum have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Lou Reed and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Banging On My Drum by Lou Reed. 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 Banging On My Drum" means the words set to the music of Banging On My Drum, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lou Reed. 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 Banging On My Drum and the lyrics to Banging On My Drum are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lou Reed who came here looking just for the lyrics to Banging On My Drum, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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