Blessings upon you for your offer, Susan A-R. Try as I might, I can't find any source of the score (it's not even in the Zen-On catalogue, so one of my contacts tells me, although I didn't know then that it was one of North American Ballads), so I'd like to take you up. And so that your conscience can remain untroubled, I found a quote here indicating that Rzewski allows his music to be freely copied. In fact, it seems that unless you bought a pukka score, you are obliged to make it available to me **BG**

Now, given that I'm in England (and I assume you're not), how are you to get it to me? And how am I to repay you?

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Thread #24157   Message #273418
Posted By: GUEST,eric
08-Aug-00 - 02:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cotton Mill Girls
Subject: Lyr Add: WINNSBORO COTTON MILL BLUES (Silverman^^^

From Jerry Silverman "Folkblues" 1968

Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues (some of the same words as was in Cotton Mill girls)

 (D)Old man Sargent, sittin' at the desk,
 The dammed old fool won't (E7)give us no rest(A7)-(Em)
 He'd take the nickels off a dead man's eyes,
 To(A7)buy a Coca Cola and an Eskimo Pie.
 
 chorus
 I got the (D) blues,  I got the  blues, I got the  Winnsbr'o Cotton Mill blues(D7)
 (G)Lordy, Lordy, (Gm)spoolin's hard.
 (D)You know and I know, I don't have to tell,
 You work for Tom Watson, got to work like hell.
 I got the (D)blues,  I got the blues,
 I got the B7)Winns(E7)b'ro(A7)Cotton Mill Blues(D)(Bflat7)
 
(A7): When I die, dont bury me at all,
 Just hang me up on the spool room wall.
 Place a knotter in my right hand,
 So I can keep on spoolin' in the promised land.
 When I die, don't bury me deep,
 Bury me down on 600 Street.
 Place a bobbin in each hand,
 So I can doff in the promised land.
 chorus^^^