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All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go...

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

John Denver -Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co., Inc. -ASCAP

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin', it's early morn
The taxi's waiting, he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Chorus:
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
I'm leavin' on a jet plane
I don't know when I'll be back again
Oh, babe, I hate to go.

There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
Every place I go, I think of you
Every song I sing, I sing for you
When I come back, I'll wear your wedding ring.

(Chorus)

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time let me kiss you
Then close your eyes, I'll be on my way.
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times, I won't have to say,

(Chorus)

It's the charming of '60s, I love this track esp. the first line of the song.

Thanks to Peter Paul and Mary web site, I got some clues and fact. It's first recorded in Album 1700.

And the liner notes memerized about them as below.

ALBUM LINER NOTES

PETER, PAUL AND MARY
STANDING IN A ROW
MILLION CONCERTS LATER,
STEADY ON THE GO.

PETER, PAUL AND MARY
LONG AGO THEY MET.
BACK IN SIXTY-SOMETHIN'
AIMED AT SIXTY-YET.

WITH THEIR HAMMERIN' AND BLOWIN'
PUFFIN' AND THE REST,
A GOOD THING THAT GOT BETTER
GOT RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE BEST.

AND HANDED DOWN SOME HEAVYWEIGHT
IDEAS ON OUR HEADS
IN ALBERT HALL AND CARNEGIE
OR CARS WITH NEWLYWEDS;
IN ROOMS WITH JUST TWO PEOPLE,
THEN IN BALLPARKS WITH THE PREZ.

THE FOLK BAG KEEPS ON FLOWIN',
HEAVY ELSEWHERE AS WELL AS HERE.
AND THE FOLK BAG KEEPS ON GROWIN'
SINCE MORE FOLKS ARE GETTING NEAR
TO GETTING NEAR EACH OTHER
IN A WAY THAT STILL AIN'T CLEAR.

BUT THE PICTURE COMES TO FOCUS
ON WHAT SOME FOLKS HOLD DEAR,
AND THE PROSPECT OF ITS VALUE
BEING LESSENED BY THE FEAR
THAT NOTHING IS FOR CERTAIN,
WHICH IS CERTAINLY THE CASE
WHEN BOMBS AND ICE-BLUE-SOMETHING
HAVE OCCUPIED A RACE.

BUT THE RACE IS ON TO BETTER THINGS
THAN ARMPITS AND ARMS RACE.
AND THE BIRDS ARE OFF THE GREASE PAINT,
ONTO SHOWING US THEIR FACE.

WHICH ALL BEGAN SOME YEARS AGO
WITH SEEGER AND THE REST,
WITH WOODY'S GUSTY VIEWPOINT
AND WITH MUDDY'S CLEAR UNREST.

SOMETHING TRAVELED MANY HIGHWAYS
FULL OF HEARTACHES AND BADTIMES
THEN GOT INTO A BRAND NEW SUIT
THAT SUITED BRAND NEW CHIMES.

WHICH CHIMES CONTINUE RINGING
IN A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS;
THROUGH AMPS AND THROUGH GARDENIAS,
AND BENDING NOTES AND PHRASE.

SO THE GUITAR WAS THE ANSWER,
YOU COULD TAKE IT WHEN YOU WENT.
AND YOU KNEW YOU HAD TO GO AS SOON AS
SOMETHING IN YOU WENT.

AND YOU ALSO TOOK A RADIO THAT YOU
HELD UP TO YOUR EAR,
A LITTLE THING MADE SOMEWHERE WE DIDN'T
ALWAYS HOLD SO DEAR.
WHICH MIGHT HAVE MADE YOU WONDER
JUST EXACTLY WHAT GOES ON
WITH MISERABLE HISTORY,
WITH FATHER AND HIS SON.

WELL, HIPS HARPS STILL COME FROM GERMANY,
AS DID BRAHMS, BEETHOVEN, BACH.
ALL OF WHICH SCREAMS OUT OF THEM
IN THE FOLK BLUES RAGA ROCK.
SO DRINK A TOAST TO EVERYTHING
SINCE NOTHING IS FOR SURE
AND TIP YOUR GLASS TO THREE OF THEM
WHO HELP THE THING ENDURE.

Later on, the song was included in the "Ten Years Together" album.

The Best Of Peter, Paul and Mary chronicles a decade of recordings from a group that, more than any other, brought folk music sensibilities into the popular music mainstream. Combining ringing harmonies framing a consistently tasteful and moving song selection, with a commitment to social and political issues, Peter, Paul and Mary did much to define the new musical direction of the 60s.

Formed in Greenwich Village, the trio consisted of Cornell educated Peter Yarrow, erstwhile Village comedian, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, who at age 14, was a member of the Songswappers, a folk group that recorded with Pete Seeger. Peter, Paul and Mary's first album, released in 1962, featured the double-sided hit "Lemon Tree" and "If I Had A Hammer." "500 Miles" was another stand-out cut from their debut LP.

In 1963, Peter, Paul and Mary had three Top Ten hits in a row with "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and Bob Dylan's originals, "Blowin' In The Wind" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". In The Wind, an LP released late that year, hit Number One, while "Stewball" and "For Lovin' Me" both reached Top 40 chart positions.

Album 1700, released in 1967, the group's fifth million-seller, featured a whole new side of the trio with the hit "I Dig Rock And Roll Music". Dylan's "Too Much Of Nothing" and Peter Yarrow's "Day Is Done" were two more Top 40 hits for the group in 1967 and 1969 respectively. Peter, Paul and Mary's last hit, John Denver's "Leaving On A Jet Plane" reached Number One in the winter of 1969. The songs of Ten Years Together highlight a decade of association by one of the most influential groups of that era.

However, i can't find the original track, got only the more often listening covered version which is one of the Armageddon soundtracks. I hate the movie

, but it doesn't matter with the song.

The singer is Chantel Kreviazuk. She's pretty and got beautiful voice, similar to Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan or Natalie Imbruglia.

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Another song of Peter, Paul and Mary is Puff, The magic Dragon, so cute. and yes, I do like Leaving On A Jet Plane as well. Thanks for sharing.
:D

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