ABBA – Cotton Smokey Midnight (Guitar)

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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)
E   (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 E then
|E     |D     |A    D|A N.C.|
Time Signature now 6/8

(A)           D
On top of Old Smokey

                 A
All covered with snow

   A7          E
I lost my true lover

               A     A7
By courting so slow

                 D
For courting's a pleasure

               A
And parting is grief

                    E
And a false-hearted lover

                A     A7
Is worse than a thief

              D
On top of old Smokey

                 A
All covered with snow

  A7           E
I lost my true lover

               A
By courting so slow
Back to 4/4 Turnaround: 4 bars N.C. however you can play a G Verse 1:
(G)                      C
Well, you wake up in the morning

                   G
Hear the ding dong ring

                       D
You go marching to the table

                 G
See the same old thing

                    C
See the fork on the table

                G
Nothing in your pan

                    D
If you say a thing about it

                           G
You're in trouble with the man
CHORUS:
G7               C
Let the midnight special

                 G
Shine a light on me

                 D
Let the midnight special

                              G
Shine its everlovin' light on me
Verse 2:
G7                C
If you ever go to Houston

                      G
Well you'd better act right

                     D
And you'd better not gamble

                     G
And you'd better not fight

                       C
For the sheriff will arrest you

                   G
And he'll take you down

                    D
And before you understand it

               G
You are prison bound
CHORUS:
G7               C
Let the midnight special

                 G
Shine a light on me

                 D
Let the midnight special

                              G 
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 - [email protected]