Oooooooo Midnight flyer
Engineer won't you let your whistle moan
Oooooooo Midnight flyer
I paid my dues and I feel like travelin on

A runaway team of horses ain't enough to make me stay
So throw your rope on another man and pull him down your way
Make him into someone to take the place of me
Make him every kind of fool you wanted to to be

* Refrain

Maybe I'll stop in Santa Fe maybe San Antonio
Any town is where I'm bound anyway to get me gone
Don't think about me never let me cross your mind
Except when you hear that midnight lonesome whistle whine

* Refrain