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... 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...