Todd Rundgren - Bang The Drum All Day (Lyrics Below) (HQ)

Bang The Drum All Day from The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
LYRICS:
I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don't want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day
Ever since I was a tiny boy
I don't want no candy
I don't need toy
I took a stick and an old coffee can
I bang on that thing 'til I got
Blisters on my hand
Because
When I get older they think I'm a fool
The teacher told me I should stay after school
She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands
But my licks were so hot
I made the teacher want to dance
And that's why
Listen to this
Every day when I get home from work
I feel so frustrated
the boss is a jerk
And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And i pound on that drum like it was the boss's head
Because
I can bang on that drum
Hey you want to a bang at it?
I can do this all day
This video is not my property and belongs to Todd Rundgren

[@adumlarp]

My 5th grade teacher (also my favorite teacher I ever had) would play this song at the end of every Friday before the bell rang. He made learning fun and made me look forward to school every weekday. R.I.P. Mr. Wagner, thank you for being the best.

[@thecro780]

he died :(

[@steveosgood9182]

you gotta have fun at work and school. 30 years ago I was a teller manager. On Fridays after closing, I had one of my tellers sing the theme to Love Boat about 6 or 7 times in a row. He could sing too. Good times.

[@holtbirchard69420]

My schools bell on Friday is this song

[@sunlightofspirt]

Back when teachers and education were looked up too and treasured

[@richardfurlott4243]

What a cool man !!! I had Mr. Cook ; bur he didn't plat this .

[@bernardomacedo5289]

"I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on this mug all day" - Michael Scott

[@brennanleslie850]

I love this song and hate my job.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

I love this song and love my job! 😁

[@user-ew1bt8ke3y]

I feel this comment in my soul.

[@theredneckjohndeerefarmer8079]

Me to because I don't want to work I just want to bang on the drums all day

[@brandonfoley7519]

I love my job and this song

[@bryanh2898]

This is MEGA

[@geodcuo4501]

Just quit my job of 10 plus years. To bang on drums all day.

[@leejaye7698]

How's it going??

[@deanmoody4263]

Good for u

[@randomdude6719]

I almost liked ur comment. Ur at 69 and i don’t wanna be that guy so im just gonna steer clear

[@josephcollar5987]

If you own AMC stock this song is for you!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@kenlucas7025]

Congratulations 🌟 🌟 🌟

[@mazieg7072]

In the 80’a the local radio station would play this at 5pm every Friday. my boss would let me leave early soI could pick my toddlers up in time for this song to come on and we would bop to it all the way home every week for a few years until we moved! My son now 41 still remembers. My daughter now 39 doesn’t,but still Love this song!!!!

[@codo7]

Your boss loved you and your children.

[@Fallingblock]

Love this story

[@philbeeman6913]

⁰000 😁😂

[@tylerjohnston5884]

While listening to this with my dad he told me the same thing. .playing it at 5pm on Friday! How awesome!

[@TheAtomicDimebag]

Was this in Wisconsin by chance??? Same thing happened here!

[@billfrench5658]

I'm 66 years old and still rockin' to it!!

[@franciscoxcota8941]

I grew up in the 80's San Diego CA 91X radio station would play this song every Friday morning bro you couldn't start your weekend with a better song!

[@karensterton9780]

Remember Jeff & Jer? They'd play it too❤

[@Me37368]

How to give bears fans ptsd

[@bullock4211]

Lions fans as well

[@mikesitzler1106]

A cold chill runs through a Vikings fan's veins when this songs plays.

[@mmur9233]

Ok true.....but fuck off anyway!!

[@thesuperostrich]

Hack to scratch golf exactly what I was thinking. But I hear Aaron Rodgers wants out of Green Bay now

[@twicethechamps]

Colts used it during the Super Bowl season in 2006, which meant it was played in Miami when they scored TDs......against the Bears. I bet Rex Grossman still hates this song with a passion as he heard it after Pick 6's.

[@DrJuliaChicken]

I came here because I don't want to work. I just want to bang on the drum all day.

[@Sevencoins7]

Lora Rublesky lol! I just googled I don’t wanna work and I came here

[@DrJuliaChicken]

@@Sevencoins7 LOL ---

[@francistr2883]

ditto

[@DoobSteppe]

I bang my drum @ work. Dashin on the Stonks as a retail cart pusher. Ever upward friends

[@77Sunsetstrip]

I'm 72 today...and I approve this song!!

[@ih8kit]

Todd will soon be banging on the drum all day in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[@dldbug6942]

Way overdue!

[@michaelsowden5892]

San Diego CA radio station KGB 101.5 FM played this every single Friday morning for the 5 years I lived there. 1989-94. And probably way before and after that.

[@gidzmobug2323]

KLOS 95.5FM here in LA played this every Friday afternoon. This was when ABC still owned the station (Merulo Media is the new owner). Geno Michellini would play this.

[@digitaldreamer5481]

I listen to this song yesterday on KROC-Honolulu FM 101.5 It’s 4:30am and can’t get this song out of my head! 😂

[@finnickrinzler8907]

He's still banging on the drum to this day.

[@qwertyuiopoiuytrewp]

reddit

[@andromedaunsure72]

He sure is

[@tootsie3612]

My oldest son when he was about four or five would get so excited when he'd hear this song. On one of the radio stations at 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday would play this. So every weekday I'd make sure that my Ian could listen to his favorite song. He's 26 now. And still likes it to this day.

[@krystalharwood7842]

92 profm would play this every friday on the Mike and Lisa Show

[@Mendanbar]

43 year old Ian here. Can confirm this song is liked by 2 out of 2 Ians.

[@tootsie3612]

​@@Mendanbar Awesome.

[@michaelharris5267]

When I was a kid, the local rock station up in PA played this every Friday afternoon. Loved it, meant it was time to go out and party and forget the world for a couple of days .

[@mommydaughterchannel2611]

Yes I remember this! I'm near Pittsburgh. 😀

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Back in 1984, WCLG-FM in Morgantown, West Virginia, would play this on Friday afternoons. I don't know how long before or after they played it. BTW, Todd Rundgren is 73 today (6-22-21). Happy birthday to him, and many more!

[@pylprincess]

@@mommydaughterchannel2611 Me too!!

[@dbzbruh3674]

Bro same they played this on the quad cities radio station every Friday morning!!

[@SarahBartonblog]

@@mommydaughterchannel2611 B94!!

[@Gablesman888]

This is my retirement theme song.

[@CharlesW-yl2sk]

When I worked for Benton Dental Company. Julie my coworker would put this song on her radio. I loved it then. Only on Friday s.I still love it. I was 20 yrs old then. I am now 58 yrs young. Lol.❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MrMuppetLover]

Every Green Bay football fan should know this song.

[@spivedog77]

The Cincinnati Bengals will!

[@aliciatobias4053]

How bout indi colts😂😂😂😂

[@johncase8534]

That i do best touch down song ever

[@ZacharyVazquez]

Dez caught it

[@aliciatobias4053]

@@ZacharyVazquez as a cowboys fan IT WAS😞😞😞

[@BLAB-it5un]

The ultimate 80s anthem. Hard to fathom a cassette tape in a Walkman turning into the Internet, wifi, digital music and instant access to classics like this.

[@jamesconner1639]

Often, at work. This song will pop into my head and I work harder jamming this tune in my brain haha Great song. I remember it as an 80's kid ☺️👍

[@chrissiebawn9357]

LOVE 🤣❤🙏😀🌍🕊🖖

[@bobbler2]

Who doesn't listen to this and instantly feel better? At least until the song is over

[@devonspain620]

Thats when you hit repeat 😈

[@DougKatz-hu8cn]

Trump haters,their never happy,🤣🤣🤣

[@shakiemjeanjoseph428]

Packers Football games in every time they scored a Touchdown and they jumped to their Fans in Lambeau Field

[@atheismisamentaldisorder1839]

Lambo is such a dump.

[@josephharold808]

@@atheismisamentaldisorder1839 sound like a real fib

[@atheismisamentaldisorder1839]

@@josephharold808 The truth hurts

[@josephharold808]

@@atheismisamentaldisorder1839 I can't help that you're projecting.

[@atheismisamentaldisorder1839]

@@josephharold808 I'm projecting that lambo is a dump? Did you even think that one out? LoL Typical packer fan... Not too bright...

[@BeeKool__113]

This was on the radio when I was heading into work today. Had not heard it in a minute. It is a beautiful spring day and I don't want to work. I want enjoy this weather. And, yes. Bang on a drum all day. ❤

[@therabidscorpion]

If this song doesn't make you feel good, you have no soul.

[@I-speak-U-shut-it]

I have a soul but my body is laying on the road being run over by a truck. Does that still count?

[@leftyzappa]

It makes me feel good. :)

[@XxF8lessxX]

..... Because it's been torn out by the job

[@chrissiebawn9357]

Amen 🙏🙏😀😀🕊🇨🇦❤🌍🤣🕊

[@jjrj8568]

personally, electro-tinged ska doesn't make me feel good, but this is a slacker's masterpiece

[@kevinconnaughton5895]

Who Dey!

[@rboyack1]

Back in the 90's every Friday at noon, Pat Martin from 93 Rock in Sacramento would play this song. Part of his "Work force double shots" program. We would shut down the entire job site to listen in. Amazing how much it boosted job morale! Thanks Pat!!

[@mike04574]

what job was it?

[@maxamillion2140]

Back in the 90s every friday at 5 pm, 96sto in tristate Evansville/Owensboro would play this song with a mix of the simpsons and other movies and i can't find that anywhere

[@troygreenwood4933]

Played this during our 4:20 break at work for two months before we got caught and subsequently fired. It was great while it lasted, and we all hated that place so no harm no foul or love lost, save a paycheck i mean.

[@cjimmer4877]

Loved 93rock out of Sactown

[@missmaria165]

When I retire... I will blast this song as I leave... and dance in the parking lot. 😂

[@chasewarlick6703]

I think that is a Great Idea

[@garrett9176]

And you will be a legend!!

[@EADAMS_HA]

Retirement 😂

[@garrett9176]

@@EADAMS_HA vibe killer 👎

[@j9keystone806]

Go for it Maria!!!

[@dominiccarpin5651]

This is a funny song. It's so "un-Todd". I love it. They love to play it at sporting events.

[@_braune_]

Celebrating a snow day by blasting this

[@jimogrady1131]

Erica Wow Buffalo, NY is called ( SNOW CAPITAL OF USA ). 1977 Blizzard it snowed every day in December & January for a total of 16 feet. City & Schools closed for 3 weeks. People really hated us. There was a Quote people were afraid of us like people were afraid of movie JAWS. Its true Lake Erie dumps 10-12 feet every winter. Buffalo is just an unlucky City losing 4 Superbowls & all that snow. No wonder Bills fans are crazy we get to Tailgate 4 hours before the game. People drinking Alcohol at 9am. Buffalo has a big IRISH POPULATION maybe thats why. THIS IS TRUE ALWAYS WHITE CHRISTMAS IN BUFFALO.

[@ANGELxINxDESARKNS]

@@jimogrady1131 cool story, all in all uts just another brick in the wall. Didn't miss much those 3 weeks.

[@iketheranter9126]

TODD HASS ALWAYS BEEN A HALL OF FAMER. I KNEW IT THE FIRST TIME I HEARD HIM. CONGRATULATIONS TODD, #1 ALWAYS

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

For years I incorrectly thought this song was Talking Heads.

[@ricochetey]

Yeah i definitely did not hear this as Todd lol glad I know now!

[@ibeg4sushi]

Me too! And I’m an 80’s graduate. Shame on us! Lol!

[@fredrickvontater5433]

i can certainly understand that

[@AutomationDnD]

Me too

[@sarriola18]

Psycho worker

[@kathleenpittman7229]

My co-worker and I dance around the office every Friday morning to this song! Love it.

[@ariannadouglas5707]

My step dad woke me up to this this morning. I am deeply frustrated, but it's annoyingly catchy

[@MrDandaman59]

I used to wake my step daughter to this song every Saturday. Your reaction is the same as hers. 😇

[@sampuatisamuel9785]

Lol

[@cortstell]

You gotta cool step-dad!!

[@chrissiebawn9357]

LOVE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏😀😀❤🤣🤣🤣 Hi to your Step Dad!😂😂❤❤❤

[@carolregal4005]

Where I worked in the 80's, the local radio station, FM 95.1 played this song every Friday at five. A coworker always got up and danced and cranked up the music. We were not as bold, she was dating the boss but we all had fun every Friday to this song. God I miss the good ole days!

[@shotgun517]

Damn, all the years of hearing this tune I never knew Todd Rundgren did it! I just found out he did while watching his Rock n Roll HOF induction!

[@susanstacy2493]

Sean, me too! I had no idea that Todd Rundgren sang it! I love this song!

[@skiptowne5724]

It was several years for me also. It wasn't something you would expect from him.

[@brndnduka4981]

Aye. I always thought it was The Kinks.

[@beakedmonk3981]

0:22 Todd: "Everybody now!" Todd, Todd and Todd: "I don't want to work..."

[@wendytunnard2793]

I'm retired and I still love this song!

[@petermoodie6902]

I'm retarded...meee tooo!)))

[@policepiggy]

Got bored so finding random songs! Magnum P.I. brought me here "Higgins ringtone for Magnum" Have a nice day.

[@SemperFi-hu3kx]

Ditto jajaja

[@tootsie3612]

Too funny

[@_Boobear_]

That's not magnum p.i. it's crap

[@kimjohn7149]

I used to play this every Monday morning before I retired. Now I play it every day that I have retired.

[@chrissiebawn9357]

Right?😂😂❤❤🙏🙏🙏😀

[@Diomedes01]

On the day of my retirement, I am going to be blasting this song ALL DAY!. :-D

[@EADAMS_HA]

Retirement 😂

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

The Packers just score Hell yea

[@tjhooker824]

Hell yeah go pack

[@bruhdon4748]

This song has been stuck in my head for some reason, I’ve never actively listened to this song in my life

[@Ranger1985.]

Greatest song ever written.

[@danielmartens156]

2 week to retirement! Love this song even more!! 😁👍🌿

[@Kristiansolis15]

TOUCHDOWN PACKERS

[@beerbratscheese1230]

Would if I could, I'd love to buy you a beer for knowing that.

[@supporterofeverythingyouli6255]

Moss mooning the fans after destroying them in Greenbay was my favorite packer memory.

[@thegreatandsigmaticgiants8307]

They used to play this song on Madden 11

[@gregfaber3417]

Go Bears 🐻

[@Djbetoxx4]

Yup

[@gballsout]

best bass solo ever. Something I am striving for as a new bass player.

[@tylerobrian325]

One of the greatest songs, an done perfectly.

[@lukasderder2663]

I like to listen to this song while doing homework.

[@stacystubbe8104]

Same

[@circusitch]

Great song. Great bass. Great organ. Great everything else. Even great drums.

[@Pdikle77]

TOUCHDOWN PACKERS!

[@kevingoodno8432]

Go Chiefs!

[@321SPONGEBOLT]

Now available on a brand new special edition Video and DVD from the creators of “Shrek”, it’s the hit movie that started it all, “Antz”.

[@hunterolaughlin]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers this song playing during the preview for Antz on Shrek on VHS and DVD.

[@ryangomez2093]

@@hunterolaughlin Same here

[@Kara_Kay_Eschel]

A good song for a Friday or the last day before a long weekend.

[@jeanmichellelaurent]

Or the last day of summer

[@robertagreendoner5355]

I worked in a clothing shipping department, and it would play on the radio on Fridays, everyone would join in on it. Love it. great memory

[@Slotten68]

Packers Touchdown. Here's this 😊

[@goatency8745]

YESSSIRRRR!!!!!

[@gingerbreadgoalhorns895]

Well the Bengals and the Colts also use the song

[@Slotten68]

@@gingerbreadgoalhorns895 Trying to copy the Packers. Very respectable

[@davidcurtis7547]

I have a great memory of going to to see Todd with my son and his Mom . The show was in Oakland on a Saturday ,kind of a matinee. Every body got up and danced . Todd brought up kids from the audience ,and there was my 10 year old banging on the drum with Todd . How great is that ?

[@laurieschneider5278]

Lucky kid you have there ! 🎵

[@jamesclark8377]

#2020 still listening

[@r3try2351]

Quarantine make me be like

[@robsmith961]

Good music is timeless. 2020 is just a number in such an instance.

[@annatudor3115]

I'll listen to this in 2021 too

[@kristinschulte9445]

2021 and still going strong

[@MaximusNV]

how about 2021 still listening!??!

[@FuzzyLiama]

This song makes me inconcievably happy

[@jessicaengle1024]

"Inconceivable!"

[@michaelclendenen4005]

What a great song it has everything a beat and a crazy bass ang organ ..I ask you what else could a song need

[@michaelclendenen4005]

Like I said what else,would you want, the song speaks of itself

[@wargrunt42]

More cowbell. Every song needs more cowbell.

[@cilohtac4257]

I don't want to do anything except play this song all day!

[@peetpixel-cowboylegend-3996]

This song is a metaphor for my life. Although mostly successful I lacked a "work ethic gene". Twenty plus years with the Great State of Minnestoa and then I was just done. This was my theme song and still is in retirement. I love the Hawaiiian version the best! A masterpiece.

[@jacquelinestafford4730]

My dad and I would listen to this EVERY Friday, even though I was in elementary school. I still, DO NOT WANNA WORK

[@deanmaker5435]

This is my favorite song because I play this song after work.

[@gerardoosegue8186]

Go pack go 🧀

[@jimbarron8688]

My son doesn't want to work tomorrow... naturally I played this for him 😊

[@mikeg888]

This song is a scream! Love it!

[@BoltPin_05]

All rise for the anthem of the “NFL teams that couldn’t come up with a touchdown song…”

[@lauriemfs8720]

Listened to this song every Friday after work! WMMS in Cleveland Ohio!

[@heinzfruhen-cl2uh]

I hear this song in the 80‘s every Friday morning around 9 on AFN in Frankfurt/Germany I love this Song

[@MikeMaxwell1961]

I'm a bassist, drummers make the world go round!

[@tootsie3612]

Absolutely

[@tomc2376]

way back in '92 I saw him do this with Ringo's All-Starrs 🎶

[@nickhetrick81]

Just played this for my son on the way to drumline practice. First smile out of him today.

[@scottshomo2205]

When packers lose I bump this song 😂😂

[@MaximusNV]

GAME DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO PACK GO!!!!!!!!!!! LETS HEAR A LOT OF THIS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davidgorka4315]

Rodgers drops back in the pocket avoids the rush, rolls to his right, throws it deep, HE'S GOT ADAMS!!! TOUCHDOWN GREEN BAY!!!

[@joshioaz85]

Go Pack go

[@rockfortunerecords513]

Haha Bengals play the same song. Hah Who-Dey!!!

[@UrlacherBears54]

You guys can bang on your drums all day now. 🤣

[@hithere1456]

@@rockfortunerecords513 packers the og though

[@Darkhare33]

If only he came to vegas

[@catherinekammerer7094]

Rip my best friend dee we will always have the IHOP ❤

[@zacharystrobel7646]

This song always reminds me of the movie “Antz.” It was in most of the commercials but not the actual movie itself.

[@Swatmat]

Oh my god, this guy has a macro when he lands of a fucking flight, like a gryphon, he yells “hello everyone I am here”

[@Dubyahh]

GO PACK GO!!!!

[@chrisbyars4422]

This is a fun and catchy little song!

[@donnapound1893]

I never get tired of this.

[@squidstudios7648]

Love to hear this after my packers score 💚💛

[@metal00carn]

GO PACK GO!!!!!

[@brianpeterson7028]

​@@metal00carnnothing against the Packers, but this song isn't about them at all

[@chadrat39]

It is on a Sunday at Lambeau. Ever since the early 90s​@@brianpeterson7028

[@daynafriduss3347]

Touchdown song of the Bengals Packers and Colts

[@Monyornothin]

105.9 WHCN HARTFORD, CT Picozzi and The Horn morning show in the 80's played this every week as their "Monday morning anthem" 🤟😎 great memories...

[@elizajc821]

One of My FAVORITE songs of all time!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!

[@jjefferyh]

The sweet caroline of the green bay packers

[@berthromero8069]

The part of bass is so sick! I love it ❤️

[@chasewarlick6703]

A Very Up Lifting Song. A Great Song For Dancing. 🕺🕺💃💃

[@allysonbailey3011]

Bought hubby a new set for his birthday and my crazy sister send this to me - damn song is stuck in our heads now!

[@blessedbetwitch827]

8:30am, 2 cups of coffee, and my day off work begins. Gonna loop this on repeat and have a day.

[@necromancerman666]

This song... It's amazing... My coworkers and myself feel this all too often.

[@slamjackson2137]

Growing up in Philly I used to hear this on one of the tv news station all the time, it was practically an honorary theme song. Someone tell me I’m not making this up lol

[@ssssmeeee1]

My retirement anthem!

[@owellafehr5191]

I remember a country music channel would play this every Friday when I was a kid going to school.

[@dashbustour3647]

John-Boy and Billy maybe...? I live in East Texas!

[@KainSnyder8912]

I remember that song a long time ago they played it on good day morning Fox channels, has a whole lot of residents are celebrating work day off ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@georgiaobryan1543]

Always loved this, it's a blast!!

[@339gabriel]

GO PACK GO

[@flashfan1122]

I never knew the lyrics and I'm a drummer..LIFE CHANGED

[@emilyleo1435]

Thanks brother for teaching me the drum when I was little. Bklyn m Coney island. We blast them out yes.

[@ianpavelko3827]

139 drunk Packers fans missed the like button.

[@scottowensbyable]

The dislikes all work in management

[@nottyboy9713]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelhuebner6843]

No they are Bears or Vikings fans.

[@broadstreetbullies849]

Nah they're Bears fans

[@alexsenter871]

Me, a Bengals fan, casually scrolling through the Packers comments to post that this is our touchdown jingle too...

[@ewjo03]

With how infrequently it plays, you can’t blame them. They don’t know.

[@lonecolamarine]

Really? well, you lads chose a straight banger! -no pun intended

[@austinborchers8724]

I see you are a cultured individual, as well. WHODEY #2023SUPERBOWLCHAMPS

[@NikeTubeStudios]

We had it longer than you #Since1994

[@twicethechamps]

Colts used to use it too. Not sure if they still do.