Folklorists John and Alan Lomax told a credible story identifying the Midnight Special as a train from Houston to San Antonio, lighting up a Sugar Land prison cell; “Let the Midnight Special shine its light on me, Let the Midnight Special shine its ever-loving light on me.” The story goes that as the passenger train rounded a bend it would shine a light through the prison bars and if the light shone on you your wife was on board with the governor's papers to get you out of jail, the light of unmerited grace (“Truth and Justice Watch,"