MEDLEY: PICK A# BALE OF COTTON /
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY / THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Abba)
Time signature: Cut Common (ie feels 2/4 but written 4/4)
F (whole song is E)
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy
Pick a bale a day
Turnaround: 6 bars of F then
|F |D# |A# D|A# N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8
(A) D#
On top of Old Smokey
A#
All covered with snow
A#7 F
I lost my true lover
A# A#7
By courting so slow
D#
For courting's a pleasure
A#
And parting is grief
F
And a false-hearted lover
A# A#7
Is worse than a thief
D#
On top of old Smokey
A#
All covered with snow
A#7 F
I lost my true lover
A#
By courting so slow
Back to 4/4
Turnaround: 4 bars N.C.
however you can play a G#
Verse 1:
(G) C#
Well, you wake up in the morning
G#
Hear the ding dong ring
D#
You go marching to the table
G#
See the same old thing
C#
See the fork on the table
G#
Nothing in your pan
D#
If you say a thing about it
G#
You're in trouble with the man
CHORUS:
G#7 C#
Let the midnight special
G#
Shine a light on me
D#
Let the midnight special
G#
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
G#7 C#
If you ever go to Houston
G#
Well you'd better act right
D#
And you'd better not gamble
G#
And you'd better not fight
C#
For the sheriff will arrest you
G#
And he'll take you down
D#
And before you understand it
G#
You are prison bound
CHORUS:
G#7 C#
Let the midnight special
G#
Shine a light on me
D#
Let the midnight special
G#
Shine its everlovin' light on me (on me, on me)
[Play CHORUS two more times, then fade fourth time around.]
[Live: can just end on the final G# Chord, or do a cadence]