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 driven 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?   Old 222 is gone.      My guitar bouncin' on my shoulder, my   Ticket in my hand   I'm runnin' on the ramp on board, I just   Made it again   Pull pillows down and a blanket and I   Stretch out 'cross the seat   Yes I'm racked our, winging homeward   Where I got this dream to keep      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?   Old 222 is gone.      Minneapolis at 1 AM Chicago at 3   It's Detroit at 5 the it's New York City   Where she's waitin' for me      And I come chargin' off the jet way 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 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?   Old 222 is gone.