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Midnight Train To GeorgiaAretha Franklin

Released: October 17, 2014

Songwriter: Jim Weatherly

Producer: Babyface Aretha Franklin Antonio Dixon Clive Davis

[Intro]
Baby baby, don't go, ooh
Don't, baby baby, don't, don't, don't, don't go

[Verse 1]
L.A. proved too much for the man
So he's leavin' the life that he's come to know, whoa-oh
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world
The world he left behind
Not so long ago

[Chorus]
He's leaving (Leaving)
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on the midnight train)
Georgia, Georgia, Georgia
He said he's goin' back
(Going back to find)
To a simpler place and time
I've gotta be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on a midnight train to Georgia, woo woo)
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine
(My world is his, his and hers alone)

[Verse 2]
He kept dreamin', yeah
That someday he'd be a star
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true (No, no)
So he pawned all his hopes
And he even sold that old raggedy hoopty of a car
He bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew

[Chorus]
He's leaving (Leaving)
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on the midnight train)
Oh, I love you, baby, I'm comin'
He said he's goin' back
(Going back to find)
To a simpler place and time
I've gotta be with him
Yeah, on that midnight train
(Leaving on a midnight train to Georgia, woo woo)
I gotta be on that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Outro]
Ooh, ooh, I gotta be on that midnight, midnight
On the midnight, mid-mid-mid-mid-midnight train to Georgia
Yeah, Georgia
He's leaving
He's leaving on the midnight
On the midnight, mid-mid-mid-mid-midnight train to Georgia
Oh yeah
On the midnight, yeah, midnight, yeah yeah
Hold up, track one, I'm comin', yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah, on the midnight, yeah, midnight

Go, gonna board, gonna board
Gonna board the midnight train
Gotta go, gonna board
Gonna board
Gonna board the midnight train

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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