I Love The Din Of Beating Drums

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!