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