MEDLEY (PICK A BALE OF COTTON / ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY / MIDNIGHT SPECIAL)
(Trad: B.Andersson/B.Ulvaeus)
First release 1978

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 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

I say me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
I say me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a 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 courtening's a pleasure
and parting is grief
and a fals-hearted lover
is worse then 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
you go marching to the table
see the same old thing
see the forl 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 will take you down
and before you understand it
you're a 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)

(repeat and fade)

