I LOVE THE DIN OF BEATING DRUMS
Reading edition
I love the din of beating drums, The bellowing pipe, the shrieking fife: The discord and the dissonance is my blood, my breath, my life! The discord and the dissonance is my life! Away with flutes and dancing lutes— Such music likes but lovers’ ears: Give me the beating battledrum, The gunpeal and the cheers! The bellowing pipe and battledrum, The gunpeal and the cheers!