Big midnight special shine your light on me   Big midnight special shine your everlovin' light on me      Woke up this morning I heard the whistle blow   The jailor says come on boy cause it's time to go   Big midnight special...      Never had the blues so in my life before   Until I left my good gal at that station door   Big midnight special...      Put me in a pullman guards around his door   Said you off to Atlanta you gonna serve ten years more   Big midnight special...   [ steel - guitar ]   Looked all around me in that pullman car   The men was wearing Stetson hats smoking big cigars   Big midnight special...      Took me off in Atlanta at the end of the line   Said you gonna start serving time boy for your awful crime   Big midnight special...      The whistle makes me lonesome of the midnight train   And it's gonna be ten long years till I go home again   Big midnight special...