Lyrics to
Knapsack

This version of Knapsack was released by Bad Company in 1977.

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Oh darling be mine tonight
Wont you be my baby and treat me right

Oh darling you know you’re my only love
Baby baby like the sun above

She got a heart of gold and something I call soul
She got everything I need ain’t no flies on me

Oh baby won’t you love me tonight
Oh baby I’m gonna treat you right

Take my hand and hold me tight
Take you in my arms and love you tonight

She got a heart of gold and something I call soul
She got everything I need ain’t no flies on me

Baby when you wrote that letter
It went right to my heart
When I opened the envelope
I kew we were going to part

Oh-u-oh-u baby baby don’t you treat me like a fool
Because baby baby I once went to school
Oh you know that I love you and I always will
Oh baby you sent me your bill

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About Lyrics and Knapsack by Bad Company

The lyrics to Knapsack are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bad Company used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Knapsack have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bad Company 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 Knapsack by Bad Company. 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 Knapsack" means the words set to the music of Knapsack, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bad Company. 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 Knapsack and the lyrics to Knapsack are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bad Company who came here looking just for the lyrics to Knapsack, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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