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The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show

This version of The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show was released by The Band in 1970.

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When your arms are empty, got nowhere to go
Come on out and catch this show
There’ll be saints and sinners, you’ll see losers and winners
All kinds of people you might want to know
Once you get it, you can’t forget it
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

You know he always holds it in a tent
And if you’re looking for the real thing
He can show you where it went

There’s a young faith healer he’s a woman stealer
He will cure by his command
When the music’s hot and you might have to stand
To hear the Klondike Klu Klux steamboat band
Don’t you sweat it
You can’t forget it
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

I’d rather die happy than not die at all
For a man is a fool who will not heed the call

Gonna see *Miss Brer Foxhole with bright diamonds in her teeth
She is pure gold down underneath
She’s a rock and roll singer and a true dead ringer
Boy, somethin’ like you ain’t never seen
Once you get it
You can’t forget it
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

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You can understand the lyrics to The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show" means the words set to the music of The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show, 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 The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show and the lyrics to The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show 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 The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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