CLICK HERE FOR THE SHEET MUSIC<\/a><\/p>\n– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span><\/strong> – – – – optional to begin song with chorus
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span>[D] When you wake up in the morning, [G] Hear the work bell ring. [D] You go marching to the table [A7] to see the same damn thing.\u00a0 [D] Ain’t no food on the table, [G] ain’t no pork in the pan. [D] But you better not complain, boy [A7] you get in trouble with the man. [D]
\n<\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span>[D] Yonder comes Miss [G] Rosie, tell me how do you [D] know? I know her by her [A7] apron, and the dress she [D] wore.<\/span>\u00a0 Umbrella on her [G] shoulder, piece of paper in her [D] hand, She goes walkin\u2019 to the [A7] captain, \u201cI want to free my [D] man.\u201d
\n<\/span><\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }\u00a0 Let the Midnight [G] Special shine her light on [D] me. Let the Midnight [A7] Special shine her light on [D] me.\u00a0 Let the Midnight [G] Special shine her light on [D] me. Let the Midnight [A7] Special shine her ever-lovin\u2019 light on [D] me.<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span>[D] Well, if you ever go to [G] Houston, you better walk [D] right. You better not [A7] gamble, and you better not [D] fight.\u00a0 Sheriff Benson will [G] arrest you, he’ll carry you [D] down. You can bet your bottom [A7] dollar, you’ll be Prison [D] bound.
\n<\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span>[D] Yonder comes the [G] Doctor, tell me how do you [D] know? He gave me a [A7] tablet, just the day [D] before.\u00a0 There never was a [G] doctor traveling cross the [D] land, That could cure the [A7] fever of a convict [D] man.
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![CLICK HERE FOR THE SHEET MUSIC<\/a><\/p>\n– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span><\/strong> – – – – optional to begin song with chorus\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span>[D] When you wake up in the morning, [G] Hear the work bell ring. [D] You go marching to the table [A7] to see the same damn thing.\u00a0 [D] Ain’t no food on the table, [G] ain’t no pork in the pan. [D] But you better not complain, boy [A7] you get in trouble with the man. [D]\n<\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span>\n<\/strong><\/span>[D] Yonder comes Miss [G] Rosie, tell me how do you [D] know? I know her by her [A7] apron, and the dress she [D] wore.<\/span>\u00a0 Umbrella on her [G] shoulder, piece of paper in her [D] hand, She goes walkin\u2019 to the [A7] captain, \u201cI want to free my [D] man.\u201d\n<\/span><\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }\u00a0 Let the Midnight [G] Special shine her light on [D] me. Let the Midnight [A7] Special shine her light on [D] me.\u00a0 Let the Midnight [G] Special shine her light on [D] me. Let the Midnight [A7] Special shine her ever-lovin\u2019 light on [D] me.<\/span>\n<\/strong><\/span>[D] Well, if you ever go to [G] Houston, you better walk [D] right. You better not [A7] gamble, and you better not [D] fight.\u00a0 Sheriff Benson will [G] arrest you, he’ll carry you [D] down. You can bet your bottom [A7] dollar, you’ll be Prison [D] bound.\n<\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span>\n<\/strong><\/span>[D] Yonder comes the [G] Doctor, tell me how do you [D] know? He gave me a [A7] tablet, just the day [D] before.\u00a0 There never was a [G] doctor traveling cross the [D] land, That could cure the [A7] fever of a convict [D] man.\n<\/span>– – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS } – – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS }<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by ccr by John Fogarty – Key of C Ukulele Strum:\u00a0 first three, then all four – ” one, two, three, one, two, three, four PAUSE ” CLICK HERE FOR THE SHEET MUSIC – – – – – – – – – – – – – { CHORUS } – … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMidnight Special<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,120,133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115,131,51,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage","category-songpics-sheetmusic","category-start-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30209,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/30209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/songpics\/L-M\/midnight-special.jpg\"){kind=link}