"Hear the whistle blowing, hear it for a thousand miles" I found some very interesing alternate/early versions on yt: [ [ I don't understand much of the acoustic version but he seems to sing something like: " le lala-le oh lalala-le a-lala-le a-lala-le women working, yeah oh, see the women working all down the line all down the line call me the trouble, yeah all down the line call me the trouble. But also some lines seem to have something to do with trains. And it could really be that "all down the line" just sounded cool for them and they took it more as a metaphor for "all life long". And he showed it Mick and they played around with it and Mick found came up with some words. I remind in "LIFE" Keith wrote that he came up with the riff and a kind of melody and he had the title "all down the line" but nothing more. Such lyrics always drive my insane when I try to analyze them.
Quote slewan Although I'm not a native speaker I always thought that "all down the line" is a metaphor for "all life long" (note the difference/relation between "all down the line" and "won't you be my baby for a while" and thinking of all the topics mentioned in the song (women sighing, children crying, men working, whistle blowing (maybe not train, but factory whistle!?)) the lyrics remind of lots of traditional blues songs Thank you! Maybe you really shouldn't look for a deeper meaning of the lyrics.
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