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