MEDLEY: PICK F# BALE OF COTTON /
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY / THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Abba)
Time signature: Cut Common (ie feels 2/4 but written 4/4)
C# (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 C# then
|C# |B |F# D|F# N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8
(A) B
On top of Old Smokey
F#
All covered with snow
F#7 C#
I lost my true lover
F# F#7
By courting so slow
B
For courting's a pleasure
F#
And parting is grief
C#
And a false-hearted lover
F# F#7
Is worse than a thief
B
On top of old Smokey
F#
All covered with snow
F#7 C#
I lost my true lover
F#
By courting so slow
Back to 4/4
Turnaround: 4 bars N.C.
however you can play a E
Verse 1:
(G) A
Well, you wake up in the morning
E
Hear the ding dong ring
B
You go marching to the table
E
See the same old thing
A
See the fork on the table
E
Nothing in your pan
B
If you say a thing about it
E
You're in trouble with the man
CHORUS:
E7 A
Let the midnight special
E
Shine a light on me
B
Let the midnight special
E
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
E7 A
If you ever go to Houston
E
Well you'd better act right
B
And you'd better not gamble
E
And you'd better not fight
A
For the sheriff will arrest you
E
And he'll take you down
B
And before you understand it
E
You are prison bound
CHORUS:
E7 A
Let the midnight special
E
Shine a light on me
B
Let the midnight special
E
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 E Chord, or do a cadence]