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 Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight
the Pips

• Presented by Molly Riley

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Lyrics

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• L.A. proved too much for the man,So he's leavin'
  the life he's come to know,He said he's goin'
  back to findOoh, what's left of his world,The
  world he left behindNot so long ago.He's
  leaving,On that midnight train to Georgia,And
  he's goin' backTo a simpler place and time.And
  I'll be with himOn that midnight train to
  Georgia,I'd rather live in his worldThan live
  without him in mine.He kept dreamin'That
  someday he'd be a star.But he sure found out the
  hard wayThat dreams don't always come true.

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• So he pawned all his hopesand he even sold his
  old carBought a one way ticketTo the life he
  once knew,Oh yes he did,He said he wouldBe
  leavinOn that midnight train to Georgia,And
  he's goin' backTo a simpler place and time.And
  I'll be with himOn that midnight train to
  Georgia,
• (Leaving on the midnight train to Georgia, woo
  woo)I'd rather live in his worldThan live
  without him in mine.Go, gonna board, gonna
  board,Gonna board the midnight train.Gotta go,
  gonna boardGonna boardGonna board the midnight
  train(repeat, fade)

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Songs meaning

• This song is basically giving a message of love.
  The original singer (Jim Weatherly) of this song
  is singing to his loved one saying Id rather
  live in her world. Than live without her in
  mine.

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Georgia

• The song was originally recorded as Midnight
  plane to Houston. Recorded by Jim Weatherly. A
  man in Atlanta requested to cut the song for
  Whitney Houstons mother, Cissy. Cissy wanted
  the song to be a little bit more RB sounding, so
  she asked if she could change the song to
  Midnight Train to Georgia
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Jim Weatherly

• He was the original writer of the song. He wrote
  the song about Farrah Fawcett who was visiting
  her parents in Houston and took a plane at
  midnight.
• His recorded version of the song is a lot slower
  but still has a Motown ring to it.
• Back!

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Motown

• Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded on the music
  label called Motown.
• Motown was great for the African American
  artists, and thats when it became very popluar!
• Back!!

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African American artists include

• Some of the most known Motown artists of the day
  are those who sung those awesome songs you hear
  on old radio stations. Sometimes you might know
  them as Soul Songs.
• Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The
  Jackson 5, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Lionel
  Richie, Stevie Wonderand many more!
• P back!!

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Gladys Knight and the Pips

• Gladys Knight started singing around young age of
  four.
• Shes known for having the most divine voices
  filled with soul.
• She was the first person to ever come forth to
  the head of Motown.
• Midnight Train to Georgia was her top hit!!
• Bizacckkk, yo.

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5 literary terms

• Allusion
• Couplet
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Lyric

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Allusion

• reference to a well known person, place, thing
• In the song, its referencing to the state
  Georgia.
• back

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Couplet

• A pair of rhyming lines
• In the song
• That some day hed be a star
• (A superstar but didnt get far)
• back

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Onomatopoeia

• A use of words to imitate sounds
• In the song
• (Leaving on a midnight train to Georgia, woo woo)
• back

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Repetition

• A use of many elements
• In the song
• On that midnight train to Georgia
• back

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Lyric

• It expresses the observations and feelings of a
  speaker in a musical way.
• In the song, Gladys Knight is expressing her love
  and how much she misses her loved one.
• back

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citations

• "Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight the
  Pips." SONGFACTS. N.p., n.d.      Web. 11 May
  2010. lthttp//www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id1940
  gt.
• Fontenot, Robert. "About." Rev. of Gladys Knight
  and the Pips, ed. Robert      Fortenot. About.
  Robert Fortenot, n.d. Web. 17 May 2010.
       lthttp//oldies.about.com/od/70spopandsoul/p/
  gladysknight.htmgt.