Big Midnight Special Chords
Big Midnight Special by Wilma Lee Cooper is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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