Midnight Train-The Charlie Daniels Band

[ti:Midnight Train] [ar:The Charlie Daniels Band] [al:The Ultimate Charlie Daniels B] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Midnight Train - The Charlie Daniels Band [00:29.26]Midnight train roll on [00:33.15] [00:35.85]Midnight train roll on [00:40.00] [00:42.64]Clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowin' [00:44.51]Take this stranger on to Santa Fe [00:46.51] [00:49.64]It seems like romance and danger [00:51.17]Follow this here tall dark stranger all along the way [00:55.66] [00:59.85]Well the train was rumblin' through the night heading south to Santa Fe [01:02.99]And in a fancy car with a private bar and a personal valet [01:06.39]There was a bunch of cold eyed men sittin' at a poker table [01:09.64]Bettin' hot stakes all around [01:11.13] [01:13.39]Ole Louisiana Lou had a knife in his shoe was dealin [01:15.57]A hand of cards and ole Stagger Lee Crocket had a gun in his pocket [01:18.84]Was sweatin' bettin' hard and over in the corner this Mexican guy [01:21.59]With two gold teeth and a patch on his eye took a long hard look around [01:25.24] [01:26.68]And then the door flew open the stranger walked in [01:29.76]Said "Dont y'all get excited I know this heres a private game [01:31.95]And I know I wasnt invited but I got a roll thatd choke a mule [01:34.84]I'm just about a big enough fool to lay it all right down [01:38.35] [01:40.24]And everybody nodded as the stranger took his seat [01:43.52]He knew this bunch of cutthroats would be mighty hard to beat [01:46.70]As the stranger knew then the toughest two by far were where he sat [01:50.02]Was a pot belly fellow from south Alabama and a dude in a black felt hat [01:53.47]Midnight train roll on [01:57.56] [01:59.85]Midnight train roll on [02:04.27] [02:06.79]Well clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowin' [02:08.61]Take this stranger on to Santa Fe [02:10.95] [02:13.94]It seems like romance and danger [02:15.52]Follow this here tall dark stranger all along the way [02:19.84] [02:24.22]Well the stranger sat down he looked around at all them evil faces [02:26.68]And the pot-belly fellow drew a pair of queens but the stranger [02:29.62]He drew aces and he kept on raising and pushin' his luck [02:32.57]Kept on winning like a run away truck he was giving them a beating [02:35.73] [02:37.42]And the stakes got higher than a Chinese kite the stranger [02:39.80]Kept getting hot till every cent everybody had was lying out in the pot [02:43.50] [02:44.07]And then the stranger threw down a royal flush somebody said [02:46.47]Hey man thats enough friend I think youve been cheatin'" [02:48.89] [02:50.82]And then the stranger picked the money up and said "Boys I better run [02:53.91]And then the pot-bellied fella pulled a razor out somebody pulled a gun [02:56.78] [02:57.47]They said You may think you're a sly old fox you're gonna leave here [03:00.23]In a long pine box if you don't leave that money alone" [03:03.49]Just about then the lights went out and they all started fussin' [03:06.46]And the lights came on the stranger was gone they all started cussin' [03:10.09]And they searched that train from front to rear [03:12.59]That stranger he done disappeared and all their money was gone [03:15.49] [03:17.73]When the train pulled in the station with the whistle blowin' loud [03:20.87]A telegram was waitin' from the stranger for the crowd [03:24.02]Said Thank you for the money boys but don't feel too outdone [03:27.45]'Cause it takes a dog to know a dog I'm a howlin' son of a gun [03:31.06]Midnight train roll on [03:35.01](Roll on roll on) [03:36.71] [03:37.46]Midnight train roll on [03:41.67](Roll on roll on) [03:43.48] [03:44.54]Well clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowin' [03:46.26]Take this stranger on to Santa Fe [03:48.50] [03:51.57]It seems like romance and danger [03:53.02]Follow this here tall dark stranger all along the way [03:57.82] [03:59.64]Oh he's long gone