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 |A# |F D|F N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8
(A) A#
On top of Old Smokey
F
All covered with snow
F7 C
I lost my true lover
F F7
By courting so slow
A#
For courting's a pleasure
F
And parting is grief
C
And a false-hearted lover
F F7
Is worse than a thief
A#
On top of old Smokey
F
All covered with snow
F7 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 D#
Verse 1:
(G) G#
Well, you wake up in the morning
D#
Hear the ding dong ring
A#
You go marching to the table
D#
See the same old thing
G#
See the fork on the table
D#
Nothing in your pan
A#
If you say a thing about it
D#
You're in trouble with the man
CHORUS:
D#7 G#
Let the midnight special
D#
Shine a light on me
A#
Let the midnight special
D#
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
D#7 G#
If you ever go to Houston
D#
Well you'd better act right
A#
And you'd better not gamble
D#
And you'd better not fight
G#
For the sheriff will arrest you
D#
And he'll take you down
A#
And before you understand it
D#
You are prison bound
CHORUS:
D#7 G#
Let the midnight special
D#
Shine a light on me
A#
Let the midnight special
D#
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 D# Chord, or do a cadence]