Lyrics to
Rock ‘n’ Roll

This version of Rock ‘N’ Roll was released by Lou Reed in 1974.

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Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there’s nothin’ happening at all
Every time she put on the radio
There was nothin’ goin’ down at all
Not at all

One fine mornin’, she puts on a New York station
And she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started dancin’ to that fine-fine-fine-fine music
Ooohhh, her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll
Hey baby, rock ‘n’ roll

Despite all the amputation
You could dance to a rock ‘n’ roll station
And it was all right
It was all right
Hey babe

Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there’s nothin’ happening at all
Two TV sets, two Cadillac cars
Ahhh, hey, ain’t help me nothin’ at all
Not at all

One fine morning, she heard on a New York station
She couldn’t believe what she heard at all
Not at all

Despite the amputation
You could dance to a rock ‘n’ roll station
It was all right
It was all right
Oh, now here she comes now-now

Jenny said, when she was just five years old
You know there’s nothin’ happening at all
Yeah, every time she put on the radio
There was nothin’ goin’ down at all
Not at all

Then one fine morning, she put on a New York station
And she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started dancing to that fine-fine music
Ahh, her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll
Rock ‘n’ roll

Despite all the amputation
You could dance to the rock ‘n’ roll station

It’s all right, all right
All right, all right
All right, it’s all right
All right, all right
Baby, baby
Baby, baby, ooohhh

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About Lyrics and Rock ‘N’ Roll by Lou Reed

The lyrics for Rock ‘N’ Roll are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Lou Reed. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Rock ‘N’ Roll 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 ‘N’ Roll - Lou Reed 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 ‘N’ Roll by Lou Reed 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 ‘N’ Roll" means the words set to the music of Rock ‘N’ Roll, 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 Rock ‘N’ Roll and the lyrics to Rock ‘N’ Roll 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 Rock ‘N’ Roll, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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