所属专辑:Homesick Heroes
时长: 04:18
Midnight Train (午夜列车) - The Charlie Daniels Band[00:00:00]
Written by:C. Daniels/C. Hayward/J. Gavin/T. DiGregorio/T. Crain[00:00:01]
Midnight train roll on[00:00:29]
Midnight train roll on[00:00:35]
Clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowing[00:00:42]
Take this stranger on to Santa Fe[00:00:44]
It seems like romance and danger[00:00:49]
Follow this here tall dark stranger all along the way[00:00:51]
Well the train was rumbling through the night[00:00:59]
Heading south to Santa Fe[00:01:01]
And in a fancy car with a private bar and a personal valet[00:01:03]
There was a bunch of cold eyed men a sitting at a poker table[00:01:06]
Betting hot stakes all around[00:01:09]
Ole Louisiana Lou had a knife in his shoe[00:01:13]
Was dealin' a hand of cards[00:01:15]
And ole stagger lee crochet had a gun in his pocket[00:01:16]
Was sweating Betting hard[00:01:18]
And over in the corner this Mexican guy with two gold[00:01:20]
Teeth and a patch on his eye[00:01:22]
Took a long hard look around[00:01:23]
And then the door flew open[00:01:26]
The stranger walked in and said don't ya'll get excited[00:01:27]
I know this here's a private game[00:01:29]
And I know I wasn't invited[00:01:31]
But I got a roll that'd choke a mule[00:01:33]
I'm just about a big enough fool to lay it all right down[00:01:35]
And everybody nodded as the stranger took his seat[00:01:40]
He knew this bunch of cutthroat's would be mighty hard to beat[00:01:43]
As the stranger knew then the toughest two by far were where he sat[00:01:46]
Was a pot belly fellow from south Alabama[00:01:50]
And a dude in a black felt hat[00:01:51]
Midnight train roll on[00:01:53]
Midnight train roll on[00:01:59]
Well clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowing[00:02:06]
Take this stranger on to Santa Fe[00:02:08]
It seems like romance and danger[00:02:13]
Follow this here tall dark stranger all along the way[00:02:15]
Well the stranger sat down he looked around at all them evil faces[00:02:24]
And the pot belly fellow drew a pair of queens[00:02:27]
But the stranger he drew aces[00:02:29]
And he kept on raising and pushing his luck[00:02:30]
Kept on winning like a run away truck[00:02:32]
He was giving them a beating[00:02:34]
And the stakes got higher than a Chinese kite[00:02:37]
The stranger kept getting hot[00:02:39]
Till every cent everybody had was lying out in that pot[00:02:40]
Then the stranger threw down a royal flush[00:02:44]
Somebody said[00:02:45]
Hey man that's enough friend I think you've been cheating[00:02:46]
And then the stranger picked the money up and said[00:02:50]
Boys I better run[00:02:53]
And then the bot bellyed fella pulled a razor out[00:02:54]
And somebody pulled a gun[00:02:56]
They said you may think you're a sly old fox[00:02:57]
You're gonna leave here in a long pine box[00:02:59]
If you don't leave that money alone[00:03:01]
Just about then the lights went out[00:03:04]
And they all started fussing[00:03:06]
And the lights came on the stranger was gone[00:03:07]
They all started cussing[00:03:09]
And they searched that train from front to rear[00:03:10]
The stranger he done disappeared[00:03:12]
And all their money was gone[00:03:14]
When the train pulled in the station[00:03:17]
With the whistle blowing loud[00:03:19]
A telegram was waiting from the stranger for the crowd[00:03:20]
Said thank you for the money boys[00:03:24]
But don't feel too outdone[00:03:25]
Cause it takes a dog to know a dog[00:03:27]
I'm a howling son of a gun[00:03:29]
Midnight train roll on[00:03:31]
Midnight train roll on[00:03:37]
Well clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowing[00:03:44]
Take this stranger on to Santa Fe[00:03:46]
It seems like romance and danger[00:03:51]
Follow this here tall dark stranger all along the way[00:03:53]