THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL - Lonnie Donegan

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The legend of The Midnight Special is that a train would pass the prison each day at midnight and its headlight would flash through the bars and into the prison. The superstition was that if the light shone on you, that meant you would be the next man to get out of the prison.

Lead Belly saw John Lomax as his Midnight Special, his way to get out of Angola. He asked Lomax to record a song he had written, a plea to Louisiana Gov. O.K. Allen to release him from prison.

Lead Belly asked Lomax to deliver the recording to Gov. Allen. At the end of the song, Lead Belly made sure to tell the governor his given name and exactly where he could be found in prison.

Then in the late 1950's Lonnie got it into the charts and from then on..

Or....
The Midnight Special is a replay of the auld devil's black coach or hunt or horse myth which is coming to take us all away.
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Coming for me soon :-(
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