MEDLEY: PICK C# BALE OF COTTON /
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY / THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Abba)
Time signature: Cut Common (ie feels 2/4 but written 4/4)
G# (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 G# then
|G# |F# |C# D|C# N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8
(A) F#
On top of Old Smokey
C#
All covered with snow
C#7 G#
I lost my true lover
C# C#7
By courting so slow
F#
For courting's a pleasure
C#
And parting is grief
G#
And a false-hearted lover
C# C#7
Is worse than a thief
F#
On top of old Smokey
C#
All covered with snow
C#7 G#
I lost my true lover
C#
By courting so slow
Back to 4/4
Turnaround: 4 bars N.C.
however you can play a B
Verse 1:
(G) E
Well, you wake up in the morning
B
Hear the ding dong ring
F#
You go marching to the table
B
See the same old thing
E
See the fork on the table
B
Nothing in your pan
F#
If you say a thing about it
B
You're in trouble with the man
CHORUS:
B7 E
Let the midnight special
B
Shine a light on me
F#
Let the midnight special
B
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
B7 E
If you ever go to Houston
B
Well you'd better act right
F#
And you'd better not gamble
B
And you'd better not fight
E
For the sheriff will arrest you
B
And he'll take you down
F#
And before you understand it
B
You are prison bound
CHORUS:
B7 E
Let the midnight special
B
Shine a light on me
F#
Let the midnight special
B
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 B Chord, or do a cadence]