Midnight Train to Georgia

Lyrics to "Midnight Train To Georgia"

Pips Included

(As recorded by Gladys Knight & The Pips)
JIM WEATHERLY

hmmm, L.A.

proooooved too much for the man
too much for the man - he couldn't make it

So he's leavin' the life, hmm
he's come to knoooow, ooo

he said he's goin'

He said he's goin' back to find
goin' back to find

ooo ooo ooo-what's left of his world
The world he left behind
not so looong ago o o o o o o hhhh

He's leavin'

leavin'

on that midnight train to Georgia

leavin' on a midnight train

hmm, yeah

Said he's goin' back

goin' back to find

to a simpler place in time

to find the simpler place and time
and she's gonna be right by his side

oh yes he his

'N---I'll be with him
I know you will

on that midnight train to Georgia

leavin' on a midnight train

ayyy heh heh heh heh

woo hoo hoo
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I'd rather live in his world
than live without him in mine

myworld

I'd rather live in his world
my world is his - his and hers alone

He kept dreamin'
dreamin'

oooh that someday, he'd be a star

a super-star, but he didn't get faar

But he sho' found out the hard way,
that dreaaams don't always come true

dreams don't always come true uhn hun,
no
uhn, huh

So he's pawned all his hopes

woo hoo hoo hoo

and he even so-ho-oh-oh-ld his own car

(higher pitch) woo hoo hoo hoo

Bought a one-way ticket back,
to the life,
he once knew
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Oh oh,
he's leavin'

leavin'

ooon that midnight train to Georgia

leavin' on a Midnight Train

hmm, yeah

Said he's goin' back to find
goin' back to find

Ooh - - - a simpler place and time

yes she's gonna be right by his-side

N'-I'm gonna be with him
I know you will

oooon that midnight train to Georgia

leavin' on a Midnight Train to Georgiaaaaa - whohooo

I'd rather live in his world
live in his world
than live without him, in mine

My world is his - his and hers alone

Oooohhhh he's leavin'

Leavin'

on the midnight train to Georgia

Leavin' on the midnight train

Yeah, ohh y'all
Said he's goin' back to find

goin' back to find

oooohhh the simpler place and time

Guess who's gonna be right by his-side

I've got to be with him

I know you will

oooooon that midnight train to Georgia

Leavin' on a midnight train - woo hoo

HeyyyHey hey hey, I'd rather live in his world than live without him, in mine
Her world is his - his and hers alone

Hey Hey Hey

One Love
Gonna Board
Gotta Board
Gonna Love
Gonna Board
Gonna midnight train and ride

All aboard, all aboard, all aboard
All aboard, all aboard, all aboard

My world his world
Mine and his alone

I got to go
I got to go
I got to go

hey

I got to go
I got to go
I got to go

My world, his world, my man, his girl

(c) Copyright 1971, 1973 by Keca Music, Inc. International copyright secured.
All rights reserved.

- SONG HITS, Summer 1974.

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My sister is visiting and we were driving in the car and out of nowhere, she starts to sing:

"Mamma tried to sock it to me tell me how to live,"
duh nun nuh, duh nun nuh, dunt, dunt, dunt.
"But I could not listen, coz my head is like a sieve"
duh nun nuh, duh nun nuh, dunt, dunt, dunt.
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I was laughing SO HARD. I had to look this up and it is from a bit called Earache My Eye.

The correct lyrics are:
EARACHE MY EYE

My momma socks it to me
Trying to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her
'Cause my head in like a sieve
My daddy kicked me out
'Cause I wear my sister's clothes
He caught me in the bathroom
With a pair of panty hose
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I still miss the World Trade Center

Thought about this song at the same time.

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass they slip away across the Universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai Guru Deva Om.

Chorus:
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the Universe.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the Universe.
Jai Guru Deva Om.

Chorus.

Sounds of laughter, shades of earth are ringing through my opened ears
Inciting and inviting me.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on across the Universe.
Jai Guru Deva Om.

Chorus.

Jai Guru Deva.

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Ok, oh my goodness. Scott and I were going to see the movie World Trade Center, which by the way will be a heartbreaker of course. We had made dinner and were going to go to an early show and did not want to rush to finish eating. We had already checked out Love Story, the famous 1970 tear-jerker of another kind. It's a very well written story by Erich Segal.

What blew me away was Ali McGraw. Wow, wow what a true beauty. Today, she is 67 years old! I remember when my own grandmother was 67! Anyhow, I am having a hard time with the fact that she made that film in 1970. I was 9 years old (NINE!) at the time the movie came out and everyone was talking about the "Ali McGraw Hat"

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Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?TM

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Do You Feel Like We Do? Peter Frampton

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Interspecies Thanks

A Thankful Whale

Refreshing Leonard Cohen

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Standing in a line today 

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(2006) updated 3_10_2023