The Jute Mill Song was recorded on the Folk-Legacy recording FSI-42, "The New Golden Ring, Five Days Singing", volume II. It was led by George and Gerry Armstrong with Ed Trickett and Joe Hickerson on guitars and a mixed chorus.

The Armstrongs wrote: This song is sometimes called "Ten and None" from the reference in the chorus to the weekly wage of ten shillings and nine pence. It was written by Mary Brooksbank of Dundee, Scotland, who worked in the jute mills around 1920. We learned it from the records of Liam Clancy and the McPeake family.

The words in the booklet are essentially included above with only slight changes.

Oh, dear me, the mill is running fast
And we, poor shifters, canna get no rest.
Shifting bobbins, coarse and fine,
They fairly make you work for your ten and nine.

Oh, dear me, I wish the day were done;
Runnin' up and down the pass is no fun,
Shiftin', piecin', spinnin', warp, weft and twine,
To feed and clothe my babies off of ten and nine.

Oh, dear me, the world is ill-divided;
Them that works the hardest are the least provided.
But I must bide contented, dark days or fine;
There's no' much pleasure livin' off o' ten and nine.

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