Here's a version copied from the web site of Lyle & Elizabeth Lofgrens:

COTTON MILL BLUES

1. Worked in the cotton mill all my life.
I ain't got nothing but a Barlow knife.

CHORUS: And it's hard times in this old mill, and it's hard times in here.

2. Country folks they ought to be killed
For leaving their farms and coming to the mill.

3. They raised their wages up a half a cent,
But the poor old hands didn't know what it meant.

4. They raised our wages up a half a cent more,
But they went up a dime at the company store.

5. Old man Jones taking up cloth,
He won't give you half that you take off.

6. If it lacks one yard of being a two-cut* roll,
He won't give you but one to save your soul.

7. Card-room kids and the spinning-room babies
Can't keep up with the weave-shop ladies.

8. Come downstairs to get a drink of water,
Along come the boss, says, "I'll dock you a quarter."

9. "You can dock me a quarter, you can dock me a dime,
I'll go to the office and I'll get my time."

10. Got to where now you can't show a dime,
You're running on such short time.

11. If I ever marry, I'll marry a weaver,
And if she won't work, then I won't either.

12. Working in the cotton mill ain't no harm,
I'd heap rather be down on the farm.

13. See that train go around the curve,
She's loaded down with cotton mill girls.

14. See that train go down the track,
Saying, "Goodbye, boys, we'll never come back."

[As recorded by the Lee Brothers in 1930. Their recording appears in the collections "Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 2," Yazoo CD 2037, 1998; and "Hard Times in the Country," County CD 3527, 2002.

[*"cut" is an old measure for cloth length = 60 yards]