Midnight Train - The Charlie Daniels Band

作词：Tom Crain/Taz Digregorio/John Gavin/Charlie Hayward

作曲：Tom Crain/Taz Digregorio/John Gavin/Charlie Hayward/Charlie Daniels

Midnight train roll on

Midnight train roll on

Clear them tracks and keep

that whistle blowin'

Take this stranger on to Santa Fe

It seems like romance and danger

Follow this here tall dark stranger

all along the way

Well the train was rumblin' through

the night heading south to Santa Fe

And in a fancy car with a private bar

and a personal valet

There was a bunch of cold eyed men

sittin' at a poker table

Bettin' hot stakes all around

Ole Louisiana Lou had a knife in his

shoe was dealin

A hand of cards and ole Stagger Lee

Crocket had a gun in his pocket

Was sweatin' bettin' hard and over in

the corner this Mexican guy

With two gold teeth and a patch on

his eye took a long hard look around

And then the door flew open the

stranger walked in

Said Dont y'all get excited I know

this heres a private game

And I know I wasnt invited but I

got a roll thatd choke a mule

Im just about a big enough fool

to lay it all right down

And everybody nodded as the

stranger took his seat

He knew this bunch of cutthroats

would be mighty hard to beat

As the stranger knew then the

toughest two by far were

where he sat

Was a pot belly fellow from south

Alabama and a dude in a

black felt hat

Midnight train roll on

Midnight train roll on

Well clear them tracks and keep

that whistle blowin'

Take this stranger on to Santa Fe

It seems like romance and danger

Follow this here tall dark stranger

all along the way

Well the stranger sat down he

looked around at all them evil faces

And the pot-belly fellow drew a

pair of queens but the stranger

He drew aces and he kept on

raising and pushin' his luck

Kept on winning like a run away

truck he was giving them a beating

And the stakes got higher than a

Chinese kite the stranger

Kept getting hot till every cent

everybody had was lying

out in the pot

And then the stranger threw down

a royal flush somebody said

Hey man thats enough friend I

think youve been cheatin'

And then the stranger picked the

money up and said Boys I better run

And then the pot-bellied fella pulled

a razor out somebody pulled a gun

They said You may think youre a

sly old fox youre gonna leave here

In a long pine box if you dont

leave that money alone

Just about then the lights went out

and they all started fussin'

And the lights came on the stranger

was gone they all started cussin'

And they searched that train

from front to rear

That stranger he done disappeared

and all their money was gone

When the train pulled in the station

with the whistle blowin' loud

A telegram was waitin' from the

stranger for the crowd

Said Thank you for the money boys

but dont feel too outdone

'Cause it takes a dog to know a dog

Im a howlin' son of a gun

Midnight train roll on

on roll on)

Midnight train roll on

on roll on)

Well clear them tracks and keep

that whistle blowin'

Take this stranger on to Santa Fe

It seems like romance and danger

Follow this here tall dark stranger

all along the way

Oh he's long gone