Lyrics to
Rock And Roll Band

This version of Rock And Roll Band was released by Boston in 1976.

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Well, we were just another band out of Boston
On the road to try to make ends meet
Playin’ all the bars, sleepin’ in our cars
And we practiced right on out in the street
No, we didn’t have much money
We barely made enough to survive
But when we got up on stage and got ready to play
People came alive.

Rock and roll band
Everybody’s waitin’
Gettin’ crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Dancin’ in the streets of Hyannis
We were getting pretty good at the game
People stood in line and didn’t seem to mind
You know everybody knew our name
Livin’ on rock-n-roll music
Never worry ’bout the things we were missing
When we got up on the stage and got ready to play
Everybody’d listen.

Rock and roll band
Everybody’s waitin’
Gettin’ crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Playin’ for a week in Rhode Island
A man came to the stage one night
He smoked a big cigar
Drove a Cadillac car
And said, “Boys, I think this bands outta-sight
Sign a record company contract
You know I’ve got great expectations
When I hear you on the car radio
You’re goin’ to be a sensation!”

Rock and roll band
Everybody’s waitin’
Gettin’ crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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Boston has released many songs over the years besides Rock And Roll Band. Boston released songs from 1976 to 2002 spanning across albums like Boston, Don't Look Back, Third Stage, Walk On, and Corporate America. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Boston.

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The lyrics for Rock And Roll Band are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Boston. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Rock And Roll Band have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Rock And Roll Band - Boston and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Rock And Roll Band by Boston in multiple ways. 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 Rock And Roll Band" means the words set to the music of Rock And Roll Band, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Boston. 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 Rock And Roll Band and the lyrics to Rock And Roll Band are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Boston who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rock And Roll Band, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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