Lyrics to
Mystery Train

This version of Mystery Train was released by The Band in 1973.

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Play a little blues? Paul Butterfield..

Train arrive 16 coaches long
Train arrive 16 coaches long
Well that long black train
Took my baby and gone

Train, train rollin’ around the bend
Train, train, train, rollin’ around the bend
Well it took my baby
Away from me again

Come down to the station
To meet my baby at the gate
Asked the station master
If my train’s a-running late
He said “If you’re a-waiting
on the 444
I hate to tell you son
That train don’t stop here any more”

Train train, train, rollin’, around the bend
Train train, train, rollin’, around the bend
Well it took my baby
Away from me again

Heard that whistle blowin’
It was the middle of the night
When I got down to the station
The train was pulling out of sight

Mystery train rollin’ around the bend
Mystery train rollin’ around the bend
Well it took my baby
Away from me again

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About Lyrics and Mystery Train by The Band

The lyrics for Mystery Train are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by The Band. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Mystery Train 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 Mystery Train - 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 Mystery Train 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 Mystery Train" means the words set to the music of Mystery Train, 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 Mystery Train and the lyrics to Mystery Train 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 Mystery Train, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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