Midnight Train To Georgia

By Jim Weatherly
Gladys Night & The Pips, Indigo Girls
Key: F

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L. A. proved too much for the man,
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So he’s leav-in’ the life he’s come to know,
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He said he’s go-in’ back to find
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Ooh, what’s left of his world,
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The world he left be-hind
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Not so long a-go.
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He’s leav-in’,
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On that mid-night train to Geor-gia,
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And he’s go-in’ back
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To a sim-pler place and time.
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And I’ll be with him
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On that mid-night train to Geor-gia,
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I’d rath-er live in his world
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Than live with-out him in mine.

He kept dreamin’
That someday he’d be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don’t always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,
He said he would
Be leavin
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he’s goin’ back
To a simpler place and time.
And I’ll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I’d rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.

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Go, gon-na board, gon-na board,
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Gon-na board the mid-night train.
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Got-ta go,
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Gon-na board, Gon-na board
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Gon-na board the mid-night train

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