The Washboard Union Midnight Train song lyrics

And I'll be riding that midnight train when it's leavin'

I'll be going away to stay

I always wanted to know where that engine did go

Gonna go where it goes today

I have been all around my old home town

I've searched everywhere I know

But I can't find a trace of my girl in this place

So there's nothing to do but go

And I'll be riding that midnight train when it's leavin'

I'll be going going away to stay

I always wanted to know where that engine did go

Gonna go where it goes today

Oh she said she'd be true till the fighting was through

That she'd wait for me till the end

But as she's proven untrue and our sweet love is through

Now I'm catching that train again

And I'll be riding that midnight train when it's leavin'

I'll be going going away to stay

I always wanted to know where that engine did go

Gonna go where it goes today

When she hears that old song, will she know that she's wrong,

When I'm leaving my old hometown.

She said that she'd wait just to be my sweet maid,

Laid my heart to the ground.

And I'll be riding that midnight train when it's leavin'

I'll be going going away to stay

I always wanted to know where that engine did go

Gonna go where it goes today

I've seen that old train pulling out in the rain

I've seen her with the stars up above

Like a hound on the trail, hell it carries the mail

To take me away from my love

And I'll be riding that midnight train when it's leavin'

I'll be going going away to stay

I always wanted to know where that engine did go

Gonna go where it goes today

[x2]

I'm gonna go where it goes today