Lyr Req: The Spinning Mills of Home (Si Kahn)

Subject: Request:: Spinning Mills of Home
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Feb 98 - 04:43 PM

On another thread, Bruce O. posted the following:

Another Si Kahn song of mills, "The Spinning Mills of Home", is sung by Art Thieme on on Folk Legacy C-105. He just contributed a western US version of "Barbara Allen" on another thread.

Sounds intriguing, but the lyrics aren't in the database. Anybody have them? Bruce? Art?
-Joe Offer

Subject: RE: Request:: Spinning Mills of Home
From: rich r
Date: 03 Feb 98 - 09:47 PM

I have C-105. Of course the lyric sheet is not in the album, which means its in a pile of other lyrics. I'll look for it.

rich r

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SPINNING MILLS OF HOME (Si Kahn)
From: rich r
Date: 03 Feb 98 - 11:07 PM

I only had to look in 2 places to find it. Either my inventory system is improving or I was incredibly lucky

THE SPINNING MILLS OF HOME
Si Kahn

Early Monday morning,
I keep thinking that I'm late for work.
Why didn't someone wake me?
Guess the mills are down again.
For years I've been trying
To raise my kids on card-room wages;
It's time to hit the road
And try my luck up North again.

CHORUS: On the highway headed south,
On the highway headed north, Just back and forth -
Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone.
From the rolling mills of Gary
To the rolling hills
And the spinning mills of home.

All along the river
Railroad tracks turn red and rusty,
Cotton fields are dry and dusty -
You can taste it in your mouth.
I've heard people say
How they've got one foot in the grave;
I've got one in Indiana
And the other one's in the south.

Chorus

I wish someone would write it down -
That way someone who knows the work
Can gauge the labor, have it bought and sold
Like cotton, by the pound.
It's just too hard to choose between
A job back home for lousy pay
And makin' real good wages
In some northern factory town.

Chorus



rich r

Subject: RE: Request:: Spinning Mills of Home
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Feb 98 - 04:03 AM

Thanks a lot, Rich. Good song. -Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Request:: Spinning Mills of Home
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Feb 98 - 09:52 AM

Folks, I think I got some of the lyrics wrong on my recording. That's how I heard it on Si's record. Should've checked it out before I recorded it. Sorry. Art

Subject: RE: Request:: Spinning Mills of Home
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Feb 98 - 05:54 PM

ANyone know the tune?

Subject: RE: Request:: Spinning Mills of Home
From: rich r
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 09:13 PM

Art must

rich r

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinning Mills of Home (Si Kahn)
From: GUEST,Steve Martin
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 11:13 AM

I always heard it as "raise my kids on Cargill wages". Did Stan Rogers ever cover this ?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Spinning Mills of Home (Si Kahn)
From: DonMeixner
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 12:40 PM

I don't think Stan Recorded Spinning Mills of Home altho' he may have sung it in concert. I don't know for certain.

What I heard is this, "I wish someone would write it down -
That way someone who knows their work."

But the lyrics to all Si Kahns tunes are available on line.

https://sikahn.com/songbook/page64.html