Ridin' That Midnight Train

Source Recording Artist: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys

Album: Mountain Song Favorites Featuring 5 String Banjo (1959)

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Song Details

Title: Ridin' That Midnight Train

Alternate Titles: Ridin' on That Midnight Train, Riding That Midnight Train, Riding the Midnight Train

Songwriter(s):

Ralph Stanley

First Release: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys (1959)

Themes: Train, Lost Love

Source Recording Details

Key: G

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 150

Track Length: 2:02

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Other Singer:

Guitar:

Mandolin:

Banjo:

Fiddle:

Audio/Video Recordings

Ridin' That Midnight Train

1
No matter what I say or do
4 1
You’re never satisfied
 
I’ve tried I’ve tried so many times
5 1
I’m leaving you now goodbye
 

I’m riding on that midnight train
My head’s a-hangin’ low
These awful blues will follow me
Wherever I may go

Oh why on Earth was I ever born
I’ll never understand
To fall in love with a woman like you
In love with another man

You broke a heart that trusted you
Why wasn’t it made of stone
I’m left in a world black as night
Yet I must travel on

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