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
D7 A
I lost my true lover
D D7
By courting so slow
G
For courting's a pleasure
D
And parting is grief
A
And a false-hearted lover
D D7
Is worse than a thief
G
On top of old Smokey
D
All covered with snow
D7 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:
C7 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:
C7 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:
C7 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]