Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton 
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day 
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton 
Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale of cotton 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale a day 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale of cotton 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale a day 
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton 
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day 
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton 
Now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale of cotton 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale a day 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale of cotton 
Oh lordy 
Pick a bale a day 

On top of old Smokey 
all covered with snow 
I lost my [bad word] lover 
by courting so slow 
For courting's a pleasure 
And parting is brief 
and a false-hearted lover 
is worse than a thief 
On top of old Smokey 
all covered with snow 
I lost my [bad word] lover 
by courting so slow 

Well, you wake up in the morning 
Hear the ding dong ring 
You go marching to the table 
See the same old thing 
See the fork on the table 
Nothing in your pan 
If you say a thing about it 
You're in trouble with the man 

Let the midnight special 
Shine a light on me 
Let the midnight special 
Shine it's everlovin' light on me 

If you ever go to Houston 
Well you'd better act right 
And you'd better not gamble 
And you'd better not fight 
For the sheriff will arrest you 
And he'll take you down 
And before you understand it 
You are prison bound 

Let the midnight special 
Shine a light on me 
Let the midnight special 
Shine it's everlovin' light on me (on me, on me) 
Let the midnight special 
Shine a light on me 
Let the midnight special 
Shine it's everlovin' light on me (on me, on me) 
(repeat)