What's The Matter With The Mill

Me and my wife and another ole whore
Floating down the river on a shit house door
What's the matter with the mill
Ain't getting no grinding
Tell me what's the matter with the mill

The ole dog ran and he ran so fast
The hairs in his ears got tangled in his ass
What's the matter with the mill
Ain't getting no grinding
Tell me, what's the matter with the mill

The ole hen cackled, cackled in the loft
The ole rooster come, come a jack'n off
What's the matter with the mill
Ain't getting no grinding
Tell me, what's the matter with the mill

** Two old women running for the wall
Shouting, get out
Daddy's going to fuck us all
What's the matter with the mill
Ain't getting no grinding
Tell me, what's the matter with the mill

**After she had sang the first three verses and the recorder was put up, she remembered the last verse but didn't want to put it on tape.

May 23, 1959, Max Hunter Collection #0332 (MFH #693), sung by Mrs. Alieen Colvin, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

The tune is the same a Hey Bob-a-Re-Bob / Doing the Dirty Boogie.


Listen online: https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=332