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