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