Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton   Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of day   Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton   Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale of cotton   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale of day   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale of cotton   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale of day      I say me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton   Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of day   I say me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton   Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of day      Oh Lawdy, pick a bale of cotton   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale a day   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale of cotton   Oh Lawdy, pick a bale a day      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      When you wake up in the morning, you hear the ding dong ring   And 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 a man      Let the midnight special shine a light on me   Let the midnight special shine it's everloving light on me      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 sherrif will arrest you and he'll take you down   And before you understand it, you are prison bound      Let the midnight special shine a light on me   Let the midnight special shine it's everloving light on me   On me, on me   Let the midnight special shine a light on me   Let the midnight special shine it's everloving light on me   On me, on me   Let the midnight special shine a light on me   Let the midnight special shine it's everloving light on me   On me, on me   Let the midnight special shine a light on me   Let the midnight special shine it's everloving light on me   On me, on me