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"I Go Walking After Midnight" and "Midnight Train to Georgia"

I GO WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT

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I go out walking after midnight 
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out in the moonlight just like we used to do
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I'm always walking after midnight searching for you
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I walk for miles along the highway 
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Well that's just my way of saying I love you
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I'm always walking after midnight searching for you
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I stopped to see a weeping willow 
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Crying on his pillow maybe he's crying for me
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And as the skies turn gloomy 
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Night blooms will whisper to me I'm lonesome as I can be
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I go out walking after midnight out in the moonlight 
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Just hoping maybe you're somewhere walking after midnight searching for me
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I stopped to see a weeping willow 
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Crying on his pillow maybe he's crying for me
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And as the skies turn gloomy 
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Night blooms will whisper to me I'm lonesome as I can be
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I'm out walking after midnight out in the moonlight 
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Just hoping maybe you're somewhere walking after midnight searching for me


MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA 

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Mmmmm, L. A.
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Proved too much for the man (too much for the man)
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(He couldn't make it) So he's leaving a life     he's come to know
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(He said he's going) Said he's going back to find (going back to find)
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  What's left of his world
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  A world he left behind not so very long ago,  oh yeah

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He's leaving (leaving) on that midnight train to
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Georgia (leaving on a midnight train), oh yeah
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Said he's going back to find (he's going back to find)
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A simpler place and time
         (and, when he takes that ride, guess who's gonna be right by his side)

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I'll be with him (I know you will) on that midnight train to Georgia 
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  (Leaving on the midnight train to Georgia... woo woo!)
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  I'd rather live in his world (live in his...) than live without him in mine
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(background voices: something about "his world")

He kept dreaming (dreaming)
That one day he'd be a star (a superstar, but he didn't get far)
Well he sure found out the hard way
Dreams don't always come true (dreams don't always come true, uh-uh, no, uh-uh)
So he sold all his hopes, and he even sold his own car
And bought a one-way ticket back
To the life that he once he knew, oh yes he did, he said he would

I know he's leaving on that midnight train to
Georgia (leaving on a midnight train), oh yeah
Said he's going back to find (he's going back to find)
A simpler place and time   (...guess who's gonna be right by his side)

I've got to be with him (I know you will) on that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on the midnight train to Georgia... woo woo!)
I'd rather live in his world (live in his...) than live without him in mine