To 'Whistle Down The Wind' is to whistle into the wind in the hope that it will carry the sound to somebody and they will know you are there and will look for you, a bit like an airborne version of a message in a bottle.
Hence why the title of this song is so apt about a very lonely/isolated man who is stranded in the wilderness on the prairie or dust bowl and how he desperately wants to connect with people or some form of civilization.
It conjures up images of what happens to Muley Graves after the Joads leave for california in 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
To 'Whistle Down The Wind' is to whistle into the wind in the hope that it will carry the sound to somebody and they will know you are there and will look for you, a bit like an airborne version of a message in a bottle.
Hence why the title of this song is so apt about a very lonely/isolated man who is stranded in the wilderness on the prairie or dust bowl and how he desperately wants to connect with people or some form of civilization.
It conjures up images of what happens to Muley Graves after the Joads leave for california in 'The Grapes of Wrath'.