C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me F C Woke up this morning heard the whistle blow G7 C The jailer said come boy it's time to go C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me F C I’ve never had the blues so in my life before G7 C Till my baby left me at the station door C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me F C They put him in a Pullman guards around his door G7 C Sent you off to Atlanta to serve ten years more C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me F C He looked all around him in the Pullman car G7 C Saw the men wearing cloth hats smoking big cigars C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me F C Took him off in Atlanta at the end of the line G7 C Said you start serving time boy for your awful crime C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me F C That whistle makes me lonesome on the midnight train G7 C But he knows I'm a waiting till it brings him home again C F C Big midnight special shine your light on me G7 C Big midnight special shine your ever loving light on me