MEDLEY: PICK E BALE OF COTTON /
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY / THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Abba)
Time signature: Cut Common (ie feels 2/4 but written 4/4)
B (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 B then
|B |A |E D|E N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8
(A) A
On top of Old Smokey
E
All covered with snow
E7 B
I lost my true lover
E E7
By courting so slow
A
For courting's a pleasure
E
And parting is grief
B
And a false-hearted lover
E E7
Is worse than a thief
A
On top of old Smokey
E
All covered with snow
E7 B
I lost my true lover
E
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:
D7 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:
D7 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:
D7 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]