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The Midnight Train

Source Recording: Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys (1980)

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Song Details

Alternate Title

Midnight Train

Songwriter

Alton Delmore

First Release

The Delmore Brothers (1946)

Themes

Train Lost Love

Popularity

Uncommon

Source Recording

Artist

Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys

Album

The Jim and Jesse Story (1980)

Key A Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 158 BPM Length 2:03 ISRC USEWC0773138

Musicians

Jim McReynolds — Lead Vocals, Guitar
Jesse McReynolds — Backup Vocals, Mandolin
Carl Jackson — Banjo
Keith McReynolds — Bass

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Midnight Train

The Delmore Brothers · Single (Midnight Train) (1946)

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The Midnight Train

1 4 1

Well I’ve been all around my old home town

5

I have searched everywhere I know

1 4 1

But I can’t find the trace of my girl in this place

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So there’s nothing to do but go

I’ll be riding that midnight train when I’m leaving

And I’m goin’ away to stay

Always wanted to know where this engine did go

Gonna go where it goes today

Oh she said she’d be true ’til the fightin’ was through

That she’d wait for me ’til the end

But she’s proven untrue and our sweet love is through

So I’m catching that train again

Well I seen that old train pullin’ out in the rain

Seen it leave with the stars up above

Like a hound on the trail it carries the mail

It will take me away from that love

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