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