Lyrics to
Midnight Flyer

This version of Midnight Flyer was released by Eagles in 1974.

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Oo, Midnight Flyer
Engineer, won’t you let your whistle moan?
Oo, Midnight Flyer
I paid my dues and I feel like trav’lin’ on

A runaway team of horses ain’t enough to make me stay
So throw your rope on another man
And pull him down your way
Make him into someone who can take the place of me
Make him every kind of fool you wanted me to be

Oo, Midnight Flyer
Engineer, won’t you let your whistle moan?
Oo, Midnight Flyer,
I paid my dues and I feel like trav’lin’ on
Maybe I’ll go to Santa Fe, maybe San Antone,
Any town is where I’m bound any way to get me gone
Don’t think about me, never let me cross your mind
‘Cept when you hear that midnight lonesome whistle whine

Oo, Midnight Flyer
Engineer, won’t you let your whistle moan?
Oo, Midnight Flyer
I paid my dues and I feel like trav’lin’ on
I paid my dues and I feel like trav’lin’ on

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About Lyrics and Midnight Flyer by Eagles

The lyrics for Midnight Flyer are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Eagles. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Midnight Flyer 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 Midnight Flyer - Eagles 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 Midnight Flyer by Eagles 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 Midnight Flyer" means the words set to the music of Midnight Flyer, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eagles. 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 Midnight Flyer and the lyrics to Midnight Flyer are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eagles who came here looking just for the lyrics to Midnight Flyer, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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