Patti Smith: Banga – Acoustic Version

The title song from Patti Smith’s album ‘Banga’ performed live by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at the Louisiana Literature festival in August 2012. Banga is named after a dog in Bulgakov’s novel ’The Master and Margarita’.

“Loyalty rests in the heart of a dog
Don’t set all your eggs on the back of a frog
You can lick it twice but it won’t lick you
And salvating salvation gone so long so

Loyalty lives and we don’t know why
And the paw is pressed against the nerve of the sky
You can leave him behind but he won’t leave you
And the road to Heaven is true – true blue

Banga
Say – Banga
Say – Banga

Loyalty lives and we don’t know why
And his paws are pressed to the spine of the sky
You can leave him twice, but he won’t leave you
And the way to Heaven is true – true blue

Say – Banga
Say – Banga
Say – Banga
Say – Banga”

Produced by: Martin Kogi
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2012

Supported by Nordea-fonden

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