Midnight Special

You be in trouble with the man.

Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me.

Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me.

Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me.

Let the Midnight Special shine a ever-lovin' light on me.

Yonder come Miss Rosie.

Oh, how in the world did you know? By the way she wears her apron and the clothes she wore.

Got umbrella on her shoulder and a piece of paper in her hand.

Both highways and trains figure prominently.

Many well-known blues songs, such as Leadbelly's Midnight Special, Junior Parker's Mystery Train and Elizabeth Cotton's Freight Train, feature trains as symbolic means of escape.

The harmonica player Sonny Terry specialised in imitating trains with his instrument.

Dylan recorded Curtis Jones' 1938 song Highway 51 Blues, in which the road runs right by my baby's door, on his first album, and also performed the song live on a number of occasions.

And the unbelievable endur- the situation these men lived in is just unbelievable.

Well, that's, I think that's what inspired Midnight Special when Lead Belly wrote that song.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah.

We'll be right back.

They told me don't go walking slow Devil's on the loose Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Oh, don't look back Thought I heard a rumbling Calling to my name Well you wake up in the morning You hear the work bell ring And I march you to the table You see the same old thing Ain't no food upon the table But you better not complain, boy You get in trouble with the man Let the midnight special shine a light on me Let the midnight special shine a light on me.

Let the midnight special shine a light on me.

Let the midnight special shine a ever-loving light on me.

Yonder come Miss Rosie.

and the clothes she wore umbrella on her shoulder piece of paper in her hand she come to see the governor she want to free her man left the midnight special Look at me now Let the midnight special shine a light on me.

I put a spell on you Because you're mine You better stop the thing that you do I said, watch out, I ain't lying.

Yeah.