Midnight Train to Memphis

Album: From A Room: Volume 2 (2017)
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  • Well, judge looked down, gave me forty days
    Instead of the fine that I could not pay
    Said, "Walk right, you'll soon be home
    Cross the line, you'll be on your own"

    Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
    Forty nights to sit an listen
    To the midnight train to Memphis

    Well now, whistle blows when the sun comes up
    Hit the floor, keep your big mouth shut
    Eat your breakfast on the ground
    Work like hell 'til the sun goes down

    Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
    Forty nights to sit an listen
    To the midnight train to Memphis

    Well now, ten for the jury, ten for the judge
    Twenty more to forget my grudge
    When I get to thirty nine
    That's the longest day in a prisoner's mind

    Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
    Forty nights to sit an listen
    To the midnight train to Memphis

    Midnight train to Memphis

    Midnight train to Memphis

    Oh, the midnight train to Memphis Writer/s: Chris Stapleton, Mike Henderson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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