Midnight Train

C     F   C     G       E     
   If I wanted to stay...    I
          Am     C
 couldn't stay, anyway
      F       C         G        
It's work to play. The sky is 
    E/G# E
gray
E                  Am
  And I don't have much to say
F                       
   If I wanted to stay, I 
              G
couldn't... stay anyway
E7         C
   Well maybe just today

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C Cadd9 C Cadd9
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[Verse 1]
F      C                    F   
I once fell in love it was long 
      C
time ago
      G                C
And a thousand miles away
       F                C
With a plain Jane face, waitress 
body
      F     C        G            
And a smile like the storm we had 
C
today


F                   C
I guess it's just a young man's 
folly
F            C               G  
You've got a heart so you've got
              C
 to give it away
     F             C
Well I'd be better off with 
Mastercard
F      C           G            C
Nobody told me I'd ever have to pay

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the song 
       C
in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear

[Verse 2]
F        C
She told me that she loved me
F       C     G           C
Just before I had to go away
F                C
I didn't have my camcorder handy
        F         C     G        
So in a court of law I bet she'd 
      C
get away


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F        C
She told me that she loved me
F    C        G               C
Just like I'm singin' here today
F               C
Ever since then I've been in love
         F                 C      
With the girl who said she loved 
         G          C
me when I had to go away

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear

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[Verse 3]
F          C
I ain't no Masters and Johnson
F       C       G               C
I ain't got no business on that old
    F         C
But I got myself a few theories
          F        C          G  
About the way that this whole 
        C
love thing goes

F                    C
How did she know I'd be her one and 
only
F           C       G           
How did she know my obsession 
    C
would grow
F                               C
How did she know I'd keep that torch
 burnin' brightly
          F               C       
Well, she didn't, I just thought 
           G               C
she did but that's how love goes

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear

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[Verse 4]
F        C
She told me that she loved me
    F       C                 
But I got a hunch she told some 
  G           C
others that too
    F                      C
The truth of the matter is I have 
also
F                 C              
Probably meant it more than when 
   G          C
I said it to you

F        C
She told me that she loved me
F    C        G               C
Just like I'm singin' here today
F               C
Ever since then I've been in love
         F                 C      
With the girl who said she loved 
         G         C
me when I had to go away

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G    
Don't mean nothin' but the sound
       C
 in my ear

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
F                   C
I know you got your somebody 
somewhere
    F          C        G        
And you can't lose as long as 
    C
he's there
        F            C      G    
But the cars on the lot are goin'
   C
 nowhere

F                   C
I know you got your somebody 
somewhere
 F         C        G            C
You can't lose as long as he's there
        F            C      G    
But the cars on the lot are goin'
    C
 nowhere

G        C
Goin' nowhere
G        C
Goin' nowhere
G        C
Goin' nowhere