ABBA – Cotton Smokey Midnight (Ukulele)

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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)

D   (whole song is D)
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

|D     |C     |D    C|D N.F.|
Time Signature now 6/8

(D)           C
On top of Old Smokey

                 D
All covered with snow

   D7          D
I lost my true lover

               D     D7
By courting so slow

                 C
For courting's a pleasure

               D
And parting is grief

                    D
And a false-hearted lover

                D     D7
Is worse than a thief

              C
On top of old Smokey

                 D
All covered with snow

  D7           D
I lost my true lover

               D
By courting so slow

Back to 4/4 Turnaround: 4 bars N.C. however you can play a G Verse 1:

(C)                      F
Well, you wake up in the morning

                   C
Hear the ding dong ring

                       C
You go marching to the table

                 C
See the same old thing

                    F
See the fork on the table

                C
Nothing in your pan

                    C
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

                 C
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

                     C
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

                    C
And before you understand it

               C
You are prison bound

CHORUS:

C7               F
Let the midnight special

                 C
Shine a light on me

                 C
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 G Chord, or do a cadence] :Charted by Bustopher the Busker - [email protected]