let there be rock let there be rock angus young malcolm young bon scott in the beginning back in nineteen fifty five man didn t know bout a rock n roll show and all that jive the white man had the schmaltz the black man had the blues no one knew what they was gonna do but tschaikovsky had the news he said let there be sound there was sound let there be light there was light let there be drums there was drums let there be guitar there was guitar let there be rock and it came to pass that rock n roll was born all across the land every rockin band was blowin up a storm and the guitar man got famous the business man got rich and in every bar there was a superstar with a seven year itch there was fifteen million fingers learnin how to play and you could hear the fingers pickin and this is what they had to say let there be light sound drums guitar let there be rock one night in the club called the shakin hand there was a 42 decibel rockin band and the music was good and the music was loud and the singer turned and he said to the crowd let there be rock