Big Midnight Special

Jean Shepard

Written by Wilma Lee Cooper

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 2

C                                      G
Woke up this morning heard the whistle blow
D7                                    G
The jailer said come boy it's time to go

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 3

C                                      G
I've never had the blues so in my life before
D7                                  G
Till my baby left me at the station door

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 4

C                                           G
They put him in a Pullman guards around his door
D7                                         G
Sent you off to Atlanta to serve ten years more

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 5

C                                       G
He looked all around him in the Pullman car
D7                                       G
Saw the men wearing top hats smoking big cigars

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 6

C                                         G
Took him off in Atlanta at the end of the line
D7                                             G
Said you start serving time boy for your awful crime

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 7

C                                              G
That whistle makes me lonesome on the midnight train
D7                                                 G
But he knows I'm a waitin' till it brings him home again

Verse 1

G            C                           G
Big midnight special shine your light on me
D7                                                   G
Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Verse 8

C                   G
Shine your light on me