Lyrics for Blitzkrieg Bop as interpreted by kevin

Blitzkrieg Bop Lyrics
Hey, ho, let's go
Hey, ho, let's go
Hey, ho, let's go
Hey, ho, let's go

They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey ho, let's go
Shoot them in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go

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ledskynyrd
10-25-2004

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This song totally kicks punk ass. thank you

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greendayrox_3
11-05-2004

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man, gc and sum 41 r poser punks, actually, there not even punk, the ramones started it all pretty much. and blitzkrieg bop kicks some serious ass!!!

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kanedude
11-23-2004

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veggie kid i totally agree john mayer is so punk its scary....

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yowza_bean
12-05-2004

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This is a "crazy kids" song. About all the crazy things the punk kids were doing. Piling in the back seat, and losing their minds, and whatnot. I'm sure Blitzkreig was chosen because of its connotations of something that's fast and furious, which is how these crazy kids lived their crazy lives. I don't think anything in the song supports any WWII or HItler themes, except the word Blitzkreig itself, but the Ramones seem like they were just very interested in Germany for some reason ... I don't know the history of the band, but the lyrics to other songs such as Commando, Judy is a Punk and Bonzo Goes to Bitburg, just to name three, suggest some kind of fascination with Germany.

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punker girl
12-08-2004

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I enjoy listening to this song. My story with these one is kind of peculiar. I never had heard it before, and one day my little cousin (that is addicted to Game Cube) brought to my house a game about skaters and during the game they keep playing and playing this song, but I never figured out what was the name of it.
Weeks passed and I had resigned myself to never knew the name of it. But this past 5 of December I was waiting in the crowd because I was going to watch Green Day on stage (They ROCKED by the way!) and before the show started they place this song and everyone went mad and started jumping... and that's how I figured out the name of this great song and I download it yesterday and I can't stop hearing it now!

Anyway... I don't really know what it means but I sense the idea of a crowd of people going mad and jumping because they are waiting to see their favorite band play (just what happened to me :D) It just makes me want to JUMP!

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powerchordsrock
12-13-2004

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all my mice blew up when i played this song lol (u have to see the movie Rock N Roll High School to get this)

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vicious_groupie
12-17-2004

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this song is awesome and for all of the ignorant people out there BLITZKRIEG=lightning wars
THE RAMONES ARE THE BEST IN PUNK
JOHNNY JOEY DEE DEE RIP

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delta 9
12-21-2004

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We played this song at a talent show at the speed they would do it live. We didnt place because people like lame acoustic guitar shit and people trying to pull off progressive rock. Bastards.

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lucky_guess_rox
12-25-2004

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This song really (like all their other songs) is just about having a good time, getting drunk and such.

(I guess that some of their songs aren't about the same thing (see Warthog, R.A.M.O.N.E.S. etc.)

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Rasputin007
01-03-2005

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delta 9, that's a shame. I am sick to death of acoustic ballads, prog-rock and jam bands. The Ramones proved that a song doesn't have to be long and complicated to kick ass.

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pink_nico
01-06-2005

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Although the Ramones were very influential in getting punk into the mainstream, they were by no means the *first* punk band. They came out of established bands like the Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, MC5, and the New York Dolls. Listen to the New York Dolls, especially, and you'll hear what I mean.

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anti-kennedys
01-06-2005

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MountainJew and AirCav1stOfThe9th, you two were only half right. You can roughly divide up the Ramones into two different periods, pre-End of the Century and post-End of the Century. Pre-End of the Century Ramones were punk greatness,(as can be heard in songs such a Blitzkrieg Bop, Beat on the Brat, Sheena is a Punk Rocker, or I Wanna Be Sedated) but they differentiated themselves from the others by being a punk band you could actually dance to.

Post-End of the Century Ramones were more pop-punk (for example The KKK Took My Baby Away, She's A Sensation, or Pet Sematary). I personally believe pre-End of the Century Ramones were a lot better than post, but all are the babies of the creators of the one-note guitar solo, so I'll still listen to post every once in a while.

Like pink nico said, while Ramones weren't the first punk band, (Crass, Sham 69, MC5, and the New York Dolls all came before them) they are attributed with the first punk rock song, Blitzkrieg Bop, if that makes any sense. This song is the combination of the intense energy and raw emotion characteristic of the early punk scene. Whether it is about dancing in a mosh (which I think it is) or a secret subliminal message to turn all the punks into nazi-punks (less likely), there's no denying its powerful emotional response it invokes.

Woh. That was long-winded. I'm done now.

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shadowwiththeeyes
01-08-2005

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Yeah, they weren't the first punks (you can even look back as far as Iggy Pop and Jim Morrison) but they were the ones who really brought it out as a style, if that makes any sense. You know what i'm talking about, right?
I'm pretty sure they wrote "I Don't Wanna Go DOwn to the Basement" before BB.

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CrappyBassist
01-08-2005

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Ok, one thing, no disrespect but Morrison was a hippie, The Dolls were awsome rock, and Iggy was just fucking insane. The Ramones were the first true state-side punks. The whole punk thing originated in the UK as a was of expressing disdain for the government and the economic situation in the UK at the time. Blitzkreig translates roughly to Flash War or Fast War, something to that effect though Lightning Strike, Lightning War, and Lightning War are other common translations. I feel Blitzkrieg Bop was a song about the only punk-defined dance there was at the time, which was Mosh. Moshing was typically done somewhat to the beat of the song and with the "lightning" quick pace of Blitzkrieg Bop I bet from stage it looked like a high-speed brawl in the crowd. This I think is the meaning of the song

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browntown13
01-26-2005

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CrappyBassist you got it right on Bliztkreig does mean lightning war first used against Poland in WWII by the Germans. and Blitzkreig Bob to me always meant the dance we do...moshing.
PUNKS NOT DEAD

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.nevermind
02-04-2005

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God this song is awsome. You can't help singing along when the first "chorus" starts.

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Ageless_stranger
02-09-2005

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Every one of you is wrong. This song is about gang violence. They just killed another guy (shoot 'em in the back now) and are riding in their car (piling in the back seat) to get away from the pigs.

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alicecooperfan!!
02-10-2005

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blitzkrieg does mean lightning but that was just a medaphor. the song is about goin to a concert and havin a good fucken time

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fatkid1041
02-12-2005

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once i was listoening to this song and my buddie asked if he could listoen he heard the song having never hearrd of the ramones before he said why are you listeoning to a car commercial a punched him in the face

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whofreak777
02-12-2005

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I love this song, The Ramones are great!!! Just something I'd like to add: it's been stated before, but The Ramones weren't the first punk group. It would be impossible to tell who was really the first punk group. One of the eralier ones that hasn't yet been mentioned is The Who. I know, I know, they don't sound very punk, but look at the lyrics to My Generation, and you can see that they were definitely anti-establishment. Their song Substitute is considered one of the first punk songs and has been coverded by both The Ramones and The Sex Pistols. And, mods had an influence on punks as well (and The Who started out as mods)

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futiledaze
02-17-2005

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i read somewhere that the line "shoot 'em in the back now" was supposed to be something else, but that line made more sense to joey, so he added it in though it's a non-sequiter. without that line, the song doesn't even seem to have anything to do with nazi germany (or at least it doesn't to me). i love the song, though 'cause portrays that pumped up, adrenaline filled rock show feeling so well.

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futiledaze
02-17-2005

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punker girl....did you go the green day show in rochester? 'cause they played that at the one i went to also. it kicked ass.

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losersrock11
03-05-2005

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this is really punk i love this kind of music its a lot like me

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Child Of Music
03-06-2005

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Excuse me while I go dancing around like a gibbon listening to this song.

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punkrawkrebel
03-06-2005

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the recording of this song doesn't really do it justice, it needs to be played at least twice the speed.
BLITZZZZZKREEEEIIIIIIG bop!

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