C     F   C     G       E               Am     C
   If I wanted to stay...    I couldn't stay, anyway
      F       C         G            E/G# E
It's work to play. The sky is gray
E                  Am
  And I don't have much to say
F                                     G
   If I wanted to stay, I couldn't... stay anyway
E7         C
   Well maybe just today

   C                 F               Fm
E|------------------|-------3-------|-------3-------|
B|----1---1---1---1-|-----1---1-----|-----1---1-----|
G|--------------0---|---2-------2---|---1-------1---|
D|------0---2-------|-3-------------|-3-------------|
A|--3---------------|---------------|---------------|
E|------------------|---------------|---------------|

F Fadd9 F Fadd9
C Cadd9 C Cadd9
F Fadd9 F Fadd9
C G C

[Verse 1]
F      C                    F         C
I once fell in love it was long time ago
      G                C
And a thousand miles away
       F                C
With a plain Jane face, waitress body
      F     C        G            C
And a smile like the storm we had today


F                   C
I guess it's just a young man's folly
F            C               G                C
You've got a heart so you've got to give it away
     F             C
Well I'd be better off with Mastercard
F      C           G            C
Nobody told me I'd ever have to pay

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the song in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear

[Verse 2]
F        C
She told me that she loved me
F       C     G           C
Just before I had to go away
F                C
I didn't have my camcorder handy
        F         C     G              C
So in a court of law I bet she'd get away


F        C
She told me that she loved me
F    C        G               C
Just like I'm singin' here today
F               C
Ever since then I've been in love
         F                 C               G          C
With the girl who said she loved me when I had to go away

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear

[Instrumental]
   Am              F
E|------------------1---|------------------1---|------------------1---|
B|------------------1---|------------------1---|------------------1---|
G|------------------2---|------------------2---|------------------2---|
D|----------0h2p0---3---|----------0h2p0---3---|----------0h2p0---3---|
A|--0-0-2-3-------------|--0-0-2-3-------------|--0-0-2-3-------------|
E|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|

C G C


[Verse 3]
F          C
I ain't no Masters and Johnson
F       C       G               C
I ain't got no business on that old
    F         C
But I got myself a few theories
          F        C          G          C
About the way that this whole love thing goes

F                    C
How did she know I'd be her one and only
F           C       G               C
How did she know my obsession would grow
F                               C
How did she know I'd keep that torch burnin' brightly
          F               C                  G               C
Well, she didn't, I just thought she did but that's how love goes

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear

[Instrumental]
   Am              F
E|------------------1---|------------------1---|------------------1---|
B|------------------1---|------------------1---|------------------1---|
G|------------------2---|------------------2---|------------------2---|
D|----------0h2p0---3---|----------0h2p0---3---|----------0h2p0---3---|
A|--0-0-2-3-------------|--0-0-2-3-------------|--0-0-2-3-------------|
E|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|

C G C


[Verse 4]
F        C
She told me that she loved me
    F       C                   G           C
But I got a hunch she told some others that too
    F                      C
The truth of the matter is I have also
F                 C                 G          C
Probably meant it more than when I said it to you

F        C
She told me that she loved me
F    C        G               C
Just like I'm singin' here today
F               C
Ever since then I've been in love
         F                 C               G         C
With the girl who said she loved me when I had to go away

[Chorus]
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear
F        C
Midnight train I hear
F          C               G           C
Don't mean nothin' but the sound in my ear

[Instrumental]
F Fadd9 F Fadd9
C Cadd9 C Cadd9
F Fadd9 F Fadd9
C Cadd9 C 

[Verse 5]
F                   C
I know you got your somebody somewhere
    F          C        G            C
And you can't lose as long as he's there
        F            C      G       C
But the cars on the lot are goin' nowhere

F                   C
I know you got your somebody somewhere
 F         C        G            C
You can't lose as long as he's there
        F            C      G        C
But the cars on the lot are goin' nowhere

G        C
Goin' nowhere
G        C
Goin' nowhere
G        C
Goin' nowhere