Leaving On A Jet Plane
Written by John Denver, Peter Paul and Mary

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All my | bags are packed, I'm | ready to go, I'm | standing here out | 
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| side your door, I | hate to wake you | up to say good | bye.  |   But the |
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| dawn is breakin', it's | early morn', the | taxi's waitin', he's |
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| blowin' his horn. Al | ready I'm so | lonesome I could | die. |

Chorus:
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So  | kiss me and | smile for me, | tell me that you'll | wait for me, |
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| hold me like you'll | never let me go. | 'Cause I'm | leaving on a jet plane, |
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| Don't know when | I'll be back again. |   Oh | babe, I hate to | go. |

Verse 2:
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There's so | many times I've | let you down, so | many times I've |
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| played around, I | tell you now | they don't mean a | thing.  |   Ev'ry |
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| place I go I'll | think of you ev'ry | song I sing I'll | sing for you. When |
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| I come back I'll | bring your wedding | ring. |

Chorus: (start with So ...)

Verse 3:
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| Now the time has | come to leave you, | one more time | let me kiss you, | then |
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| close your eyes, | I'll be on my | way. | Dream about the | days to come, when |
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| I won't have to | leave alone, a | bout the time | I won't have to | say.

Chorus:  (start with So ...)

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leaving | on a jet plane, | don't know when | I'll be back again. |
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| Oh | babe, I hate to | go.  (fade)  

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