Midnight Plane to Houston
Jim Weatherly
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Weatherly first recorded his own song as a dreamy soft-rock number in 1971, but it would later become famous in Gladys Knight and the Pips' rendition as “Midnight Train to Georgia.” The change in title was prompted by Cissy Houston, who had recorded the song before Knight and whose family were not i...
Midnight Plane to Houston Lyrics
L.A. proved too much for the girl
So she's leavin' the life we've come to know
She's goin' back to find what's left of her world
The world she left behind long ago
And she's leavin'
On the midnight plane to Houston
Goin' back to a simpler place and time
I'll be with her
On that midnight plane to Houston
I'd rather live in her world
Than live without her in mine
She kept dreamin' that someday she'd be a star
But she found out that dreams don't always come true
So she's pawned all her hopes and sold her car
And bought a one-way ticket back to the life she knew
And she's leavin'
On the midnight plane to Houston
Goin' back to a simpler place and time
I'll be with her
On that midnight plane to Houston
I'd rather live in her world
Than live without her in mine
And she's leavin'
On the midnight plane to Houston
Goin' back to a simpler place and time
I'll be with her
On that midnight plane to Houston
Midnight Plane to Houston Q&A
Who wrote Midnight Plane to Houston's ?
Midnight Plane to Houston was written by Jim Weatherly.
What did Jim Weatherly say about "Midnight Plane to Houston"?
In an interview with Marc Myers, Weatherly said,
One evening in 1970, I called Lee Majors, who had just started dating model Farrah Fawcett. … Farrah answered the phone. She said Lee wasn’t home and that she was packing to take a midnight plane to Houston to visit her folks. “What a great line for...