Harry Chapin - Northwest 222 lyrics

I'm a strummin' fool out in the sticks
For the glory and the bread
And you're wise enough to let me
Sing this music in my head
And if there's any way to get
There strumming head on out
I go driving hard to pick up old 222 en route

But now they've gone and
Cancelled old Northwest 222
It's a late night bird that always
Brought me back home to you
There's a thousand miles between us babe
That I cannot get through
Is there nothing left to count on
Now that old 222 is gone, gone, gone?
Old 222 is gone

My guitar bouncin' on my shoulder
My ticket in my hand
I'm runnin' up the ramp on board
I just made it again
Pull down pillows and a blanket and
I stretch out 'cross the seat
Yes, I'm racked out winging homeward
Where I got this dream to keep
Yeah, you're the dream I keep

But they've gone and cancelled
Old Northwest 222
It's a late night bird that always
Brought me back home to you
There's a thousand miles between us babe
That I cannot get through
Is there nothing left to count on
Now that old 222 is gone, gone, gone?
Old 222 is gone

Minneapolis at 1 AM, Chicago at 3
It's Detroit at 5 and then it's New York City
Where she's waitin' for me

And I come chargin' off the jetway
The dream is in my eyes
When I see you there at curbside babe
I'm kissin' you at sunrise
Yes, you brought the van to get me
Sometime when the plane is late
We would find a place for parking
When the lovin' would not wait

But they've gone and cancelled
Old Northwest 222
It's a late night bird that always
Brought me back home to you
There's a thousand miles between us babe
That I cannot get through
Is there nothing left to count on
Now that old 222 is gone, gone, gone?
Old 222 is gone