Midnight Special Chords

Easy tutorial for beginners with some explanations, the tab, the lyrics and the chords to play the song Midnight Special chords by Creedence Clearwater Revival on guitar.

On this page you will find :

The chords with explanations

The lyrics

The score PDF

Midnight Special with chords

The three verses of the song are played on the same way.

So we will look only at verse 1 and chorus.

Chords of Midnight Special

Here are the three chords you will need to master to play the whole song :

Midnight Special chords

When this positions are mastered, you can continue by following the next explanations.

Verse 1 of the music

To play the first verse of the song, you can look at the following tab with the help of the previous chords :

Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.

Midnight Special guitar
Tab text
G
Well, you wake up in the mornin’
D
You hear the work bell ring
A7
And they march you to the table
D
You see the same old thing
G
Ain’t no food upon the table
D
And no pork up in the pan
A7
But you better not complain, boy
D
You get in trouble with the man

Verses 2 and 3 are played exactly the same way as this verse. Just follow the lyrics.

You can also play other rock tab with chords or another easy guitar song.

Chorus of the song

Each verse of the song is followed by the chorus. This chorus is repeated three times and follows the same melody. So you can look at the next tab but you can just read the lyrics and continue to play the same chords as in verse 1 following the same rhythm.

Midnight Special lyrics
Tab text
G D
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me
A7 D
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me
G D
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me
A7 D
Let the Midnight Special shine an ever-lovin’ light on me

Try to improvise with our classe about pentatonic scale on guitar.

Midnight Special lyrics

The song Midnight Special by Creedence Clearwater Revival is composed of three verses and a chorus.

The structure of the lyrics is like that:

Verse 1 – Chorus – Verse 2 – Chorus – Verse 3 – Chorus

Verse 1

Well, you wake up in the mornin’
You hear the work bell ring
And they march you to the table
You see the same old thing
Ain’t no food upon the table
And no pork up in the pan
But you better not complain, boy
You get in trouble with the man

Chorus

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 an ever-lovin’ light on me

Verse 2

Yonder come Miss Rosie
How in the world did you know?
By the way she wears her apron
And the clothes she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
Piece of paper in her hand
She come to see the gov’nor
She want to free her man, oh

Chorus

Verse 3

If you’re ever in Houston
Well, you better do right
You better not gamble
There, you better not fight, Lord
Or the sheriff will grab ya
And the boys will bring you down
The next thing you know, boy
Whoa, you’re prison bound

Chorus

You can also try to play jazz musics like the standard by Franck Sinatra Fly Me to the Moon.

Easy PDF score to play Midnight Special

The following score is a “home-made” easy PDF score for beginners that we created according to the above frameworks and explanations.

Summarizes everything we just covered. You can download it for free to play Midnight Special by Creedence Clearwater Revival on guitar.