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Leaving On A Jet Plane Lyrics

Artist: John Denver
Album: Best Of

This song appears on seventeen albums, and was first released on the Rhymes & Reasons Album, This Is John Denver, The Country Roads Collection) and The Rocky Mountain Collection, and has also been rerecorded on the Greatest Hits Vol 1, Changes, Voice of America, John Denver (Italian) Country Classics, Take Me Home, Country Roads - and Other Hits, The Very Best of John Denver (Double CD) and Favourites Albums. A brand new studio recording also appears on the Love Again and A Celebration of Life Albums. Live versions also appears on the Live In London Album and The Wildlife Concert and The Best of John Denver Live Albums as a medley.

All my bags are packed
Im ready to go
Im standin here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin
Its early morn
The taxis waitin
Hes blowin his horn
Already Im so lonesome
I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Theres so many times Ive let you down
So many times Ive played around
I tell you now, they dont mean a thing
Evry place I go, Ill think of you
Evry song I sing, Ill sing for you
When I come back, Ill bring your wedding ring

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time
Let me kiss you
Then close your eyes
Ill be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I wont have to leave alone
About the times, I wont have to say

Oh, kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

But, Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Words and music by John Denver

Comments/Interpretations

by aaa on 5/31/2008 12:04pm
i love it

by jill on 6/15/2008 12:35pm
this is so sad :((

by taz on 7/12/2008 5:49pm
awsome artist with great knoledge for lyrics

by bomb on 7/17/2008 7:53am
it is the bomb

by heather on 7/26/2008 11:07pm
i cried

by CarLz on 8/24/2008 7:40am
nice.. i like the song

by John on 9/3/2008 3:48am
One of my best country musics. I love itttttttttttt!!!

by debra on 9/3/2008 6:41pm
Many people believe that Peter, Paul and Mary wrote this song but really it's John's song.

by gy on 10/13/2008 6:32am
it is beautiful song ever

by JC on 11/9/2008 10:45pm
Great song...and so sad to think that is how he died...on a plane :(

by EAGLE-WOLF on 2/11/2010 5:02pm
An addition to the Peter, Paul, & Mary comment above. They sang it the same way that John Denver did originally on his "John Denver Sings" album. This album from John was not commercially released, it was just meant to be given to family and friends as a Christmas gift. Peter, Paul, & Mary were among those given a copy. Then when John actually released his first album, "Rhymes And Reasons" he recorded this song again; doing it the same way as he did before.

Then for his first "Greatest Hits" album, John went back into studio to re-record some of those songs. The new version of this song was much slower and so much more emotional and expressive.

by ifti on 5/29/2010 11:17pm
feeling pain

by Deepak Gupta from Kathmandu, Nepal on 11/29/2010 1:09am
I love the lyrics & voice is awesome.

by widia on 7/23/2011 12:23am
i love it...

by vondodge on 1/5/2012 9:08pm
awesome... great..

by Patrichiaa on 4/30/2012 10:20am
The best song ever .
u're amazing John Denver..

by george johnson on 12/15/2012 8:44pm
we would sing this song when we deployed, or going to a new base in vietnam and thailand at the nco and officer clubs

by george johnson on 12/15/2012 8:48pm
we would sing this song when we deployed, or going to a new base in vietnam and thailand at the nco and officer clubs also the Staff on our cruise ship Carnival cruise line sang it and we all joined in at dinner on the last day.

by jane popper on 8/16/2013 1:10am
i have remembered the movie " armageddon"... super like it .. :)

by amanda mason 3/5/14 on 5/3/2014 8:31am
that is it thank you very much for your kind words again action speaks louder than words be cause i love you steve rolph.

by amanda mason 14/12/14 on 12/14/2014 4:29am
is it the one that i want trent because i do fanice you like mad and kevin cliffton i dont care iam not telling my sister.