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It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

This version of It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry was released by George Harrison in 1972.

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Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,
Can’t buy a thrill.
I’ve been up all night, baby,
Leanin’ on the window sill.
If I die
On top of the hill
And if I don’t make it,
You know my baby will.

Don’t the moon look good, mama,
Shinin’ down through the trees?
Don’t the brakeman look good, mama,
Flagging down the “Double E”?
Don’t the sun look good
Goin’ down over the sea?
Don’t my gal look fine
When she’s comin’ after me?

Wintertime is coming,
The windows are filled with frost.
I went to tell everybody,
But I could not get across.
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don’t wanna be your boss.
Don’t say I never warned you
If your train gets lost.

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The lyrics to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that George Harrison used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only George Harrison and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry by George Harrison. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry" means the words set to the music of It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Harrison. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry and the lyrics to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Harrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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