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