Lyrics to
Just Another Whistle Stop

This version of Just Another Whistle Stop was released by The Band in 1970.

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To all concerned dead or alive
The locomotive will arrive
Bringin’ souls from all around,
They’ll be bound for higher ground.
Look out, stranger, it’s comin’ through
With plenty of room for me and you.
And it’s just another whistle stop
If you don’t quit till we reach the top
I’d be much obliged to you

Odd man out,
You know that’s the rule.
You can scream and you can shout,
But they’ll only call you a crazy fool.
Pay no mind to what they say
When they’re ‘bitter they talk that way

I seen a young boy on the run
And I seen other children havin’ fun.
A police siren flashing light,
I wonder who went down tonight.
People, people, where do you go
before you believe in what you know ?
It’s just another whistle stop,
If you don’t quit till we reach the top
I’d be much obliged to you.

When the trolley is clean out of reach,
A certain lesson it will teach.
To grind your ax until it’s dull,
You’ve got to get it in your skull.
Tell the people all across the sea
Don’t turn your back because it’s free.
It’s just another whistle stop,
If you don’t quit till we reach the top
I’d, I’d be much obliged to you.

And it’s odd man out,
You know that’s the rule.
You can scream and you can shout,
But they’ll only call you a crazy fool.
Pay no mind to what you read,
There’s one way home that’s guaranteed.

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About Lyrics and Just Another Whistle Stop by The Band

The lyrics for Just Another Whistle Stop are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by The Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Just Another Whistle Stop have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Just Another Whistle Stop - The Band and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Just Another Whistle Stop by The Band in multiple ways. 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 Just Another Whistle Stop" means the words set to the music of Just Another Whistle Stop, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Band. 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 Just Another Whistle Stop and the lyrics to Just Another Whistle Stop are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Just Another Whistle Stop, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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