Big Midnight Special

Big midnight special shine your light on me

Big midnight special shine your everlovin' light on me

Woke up this morning heard the whistle blow

The jailer said come boy it's time to go

Big midnight special

I've never had the blues so in my life before

Till my baby left me at the station door

Big midnight special

They put him in a Pullman guards around his door

Said you off to Atlanta to serve ten years more

Big midnight special

He looked all around him in the Pullman car

Saw the men wearin' clothe hats smoking big cigars

Big midnight special

Took him off in Atlanta at the end of the line

Said you start servin' time boy for your awful crime

Big midnight special

That whistle makes me lonesome of the midnight train

But he knows I'm waitin' till he brings him home again

Big midnight special

Shine your light on me