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Downeast Bob Lyr Add: Cotton Mill Girls (15) RE: Lyr Add: Cotton Mill Girls 11 Aug 00


Malcom quoted the following verse to Cotton Mill girls

Gilmerton Barlow's a long long way
Down Ellijay to Cartecay
And it's hard times, cotton mill girls,
It's hard times everywhere.

Ellijay and Cartecay are two small towns or communities in North Georgia. I first heard this song from Hedy in about 1957, before she began recording (or even playing, for that matter). I don't recall her ever singing those words, but what's interesting is that her family was from that part of north Georgia and her dad, a poet, preacher and union organizer wrote a poem that contained the words, "From Ellijay to Cartecay."


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