Midnight Train to Memphis

Oh!
 Well, judge looked down, gave me forty days
 Instead of the fine that I could not pay
 Said "Walk right, you'll soon be home
 Cross the line, you'll be on your own"
 Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
 Forty nights to sit and listen
 To the midnight train to Memphis
 Well now, whistle blows when the sun comes up
 Hit the floor, keep your big mouth shut
 Eat your breakfast on the ground
 Work like hell till the sun goes down
 Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
 Forty nights to sit and listen
 To the midnight train to Memphis
 Well now, ten for the jury, ten for the judge
 Twenty more to forget my grudge
 When I get to thirty-nine
 That's the longest day in a prisoner's mind
 Forty days of shotguns and barbed wire fences
 Forty nights to sit and listen
 To the midnight train to Memphis
 Midnight train to Memphis
 Midnight train to Memphis
 Oh, midnight train to Memphis