Midnight Train To Memphis

Well judge looked down, gave me forty days

Instead of the fine I could not pay

Said walk right you'll soon be home

Cross the line and you're on your own

Forty days of shotguns and barb wire fences

Forty nights to sit and listen

To the midnight train to Memphis

Well now the whistle blows when the sun comes up

Hit the floor keep you big mouth shut

Eat your breakfast on the ground

Work like hell till the sun goes down

40 days of shotguns and barb wire fences

Forty nights to sit and listen

To the midnight train to Memphis

Well now ten for the jury ten for the judge

Twenty more to forget my grudge

When I get to thirty nine

That's the longest day in a prisoner's mind

Forty days of shotguns and barb wire fences

Forty nights to sit and listen

To the midnight train to Memphis

Midnight train to Memphis

Midnight train to Memphis

On a midnight train to Memphis