Lyrics for Beat on the Brat as interpreted by Maxine

Beat on the Brat Lyrics
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat
Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh.
What can you do?
What can you do?
With a brat like that always on your back
What can you do?(lose?)

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MarcusH
03-26-2008

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The meaning of this song is in the title...Beat on the Brat. Plain and simple. The brat/bully is always on your back and you take it and take it until you finally snap and beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah!

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Musixex
01-05-2008

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Woa, it seams like alot of us heard many different stories about this song. I read in "Please Kill Me" That he was in the lobby of an apartment building and saw a mother beating her son on the head, but it wasn't with I baseball bat (I don't think) The bat part just rhymed, I think it was prolly a rolled up news paper or something

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Shocktreatment77
11-15-2007

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"Beat on the Brat" was written by Joey about being annoyed by an unruly little boy in a Queens playground. Joey told Jim Bessman in the Ramones book: "There was a playground with women sitting around and a kid screaming, a spoiled, horrible kid just running rampant with no discipline whatsoever."

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Richard Enahobo
10-08-2007

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It's about brats in general, not just rich ones.

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birdiehop
10-03-2007

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i think its about rich "brats", there's no profoundity in it

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shantastic
03-25-2007

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haha i use to sing it not knowing what it meant to my sister who was being annoying ...it was pretty funny bc all i thought was brat= my sister haha my bad
the ramones are amazing

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JoeyRamone65
01-02-2007

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RIP Joey. You were my hero.
It's because Joey saw rich brats, and he hated them because Joey had a hard life with his parents being divorced and having 1 brother.

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R_AMONA
09-16-2006

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straight from joey himself: I wrote Beat On The Brat about the spoiled brats in queens.... from the booklet that comes with Loud, Fast, Ramones.

i love the part were the chord changes. :)

rip joey

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Catalonia ISNT_Spa
07-16-2006

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I agree with some of you when you say that Ramones' songs have no meaning: they're just songs for singing quickly, meaning is a secundary aspect...

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MickyRamone
05-03-2006

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yah, somebody above me posted something about it being about the rich mums of Queens and their stuck up little kids who always got what they wanted...that's what it is about...

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kolzig33189
02-19-2006

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at some of their concerts they would pass out bats that said use on a brat

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Child Of Music
05-19-2005

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*agrees with delta9*

(Happy birthday to Joey, who'd have been 54 today. [19/05/2005])

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the King of shit
02-27-2005

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this song is so funny and. love it.

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whofreak777
12-22-2004

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I love this song, it's my favorite Ramones song! Violence is fun! I love when it comes on in Billy Madison, when he starts beating the kids down with dodgeballs. Classic.

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delta 9
12-21-2004

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... And that, people, is why the Ramones rule.

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CADEN MOORE
11-08-2004

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ok here is how the real story goes... joey was sitting in the park in queens and it was the yuppy part of town and there was a kid just screaming for a full 15 minutues for a ballon from the ballon man guy with the cart. joey had a bat with him because he was praticeing hitting balls. he was so tempted to beat the shit out of that little brat. after he told the band about this dee dee the next day brought a song in about it thus making this classic

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Griffinfuhrer
11-08-2004

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this one is just obvious, it's a hilarious ode to beating your children

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GABBA GABBA HEY!
10-09-2004

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GOOD SONG... BUT BACK TO JOEY RAMONERIP... NO THATS NOT IT ITS GREAT THAT YOU ARE IN TO THE RAMONES BUT YOU KNOW, BACK THEN THERE WERENT AS MANY POSERS... POSER I HATE THAT WORD TOOTTALLY MAKEING PUNK ESTSABLISHMENT THAT NOT WHAT ITS ABOUT MAN ITS ABOYT DARING TO BE YOUR SELF

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Iwannabesedated24
06-13-2003

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utasteadrenaline i heard trhat version it was pretty good...but ya this song is good. i like listening to it in the car REALLY LOUD.It's the best

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soy dooby
06-05-2003

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There is no real depth to this song. Joey was inspired to write it because he saw a woman chasing her son with a baseball bat. Then he just threw in a few 'Oh yeah's. That's not to say it's a bad song. I'd like to think not all good songs have to have really deep lyrics. I like songs for different reasons; sometimes for the lyrics, sometimes for the melody, sometimes both.

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utasteadrenaline
04-21-2003

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anyone heard the version of this U2 did on the tribute to the ramones album

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utasteadrenaline
04-21-2003

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anyone heard the version of this U2 did on the tribute to the ramones album

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disco_blows_dogs_
03-26-2003

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uh whats with joeys sudden english accent in this?
rad song

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MyFriendGoO
03-22-2003

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this song just makes me soo so so happy :)

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CoNjOutsidersLsSm
03-06-2003

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ya know what i think,,, i think this song is a greatrock antho... it goes out to everyone with their own styles....RAMONES ARE ROCK

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