Lyrics

Midnight Train
Songwriter: Joseph Jackson


I just left Carolina, played a honky tonk for some change,
Just trying to get some of these ole folks out there to know my name.
But it?s over and done, time to move on, I?ve got not another minute to waste.
The next train was leaving for Georgia, I slipped on as it left the gate.

Now it?s a long way to Georgia, on this midnight train.
And those distant lights will keep me up tonight as I ride on through the rain.
These guitar songs, the clothes that I?ve got on, are all I?ve got to claim.
If I don?t make it big in Georgia, I?ll be back on this midnight train.

The roar of the diesel engine, and the howling of the wind,
Is something I?ve gotten used to, the closest I?ve got to friends.
And I?ll strike a conversation, as we make way through the bends.
The stories I can tell about myself, and all the places that I?ve been.

Now it?s a long way to Georgia, on this midnight train.
And those distant lights will keep me up tonight as I ride on through the rain.
These guitar songs, the clothes that I?ve got on, are all I?ve got to claim.
If I don?t make it big in Georgia, I?ll be back on this midnight train.

I?ve played bars in Kentucky, and from Virginia to San Antone.
I dream every night about when I might have a place to call home.

But I?m on my way to Georgia, on this midnight train.
And those distant lights will keep me up tonight as I ride on through the rain.
These guitar songs, the clothes that I?ve got on, are all I?ve got to claim.
If I don?t make it big in Georgia, I?ll be back on this midnight train.

©, Joseph Jackson, 2007