There ain't no midnight train Comin' down the line I was standin' at the station, ten to midnight in the rain I was mindin' my own bus'ness, waiting for that midnight train Nobody in sight, starin' at my shoes, I took out my paper to find me some good

Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences Forty nights to sit an listen, to the midnight train to Memphis Midnight train to Memphis Well, judge looked down gave me forty days Instead of the fine that I could not pay Said walk right you'll soon be