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
G7 D
I lost my true lover
G G7
By courting so slow
C
For courting's a pleasure
G
And parting is grief
D
And a false-hearted lover
G G7
Is worse than a thief
C
On top of old Smokey
G
All covered with snow
G7 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) A#
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
A#
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:
F7 A#
Let the midnight special
F
Shine a light on me
C
Let the midnight special
F
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
F7 A#
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
A#
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:
F7 A#
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]