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Thread #113880 Message #2429346
Posted By: Jim Dixon
02-Sep-08 - 07:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Paper Mill Song (Stephen Rowe)
Subject: Lyr Add: PAPER MILL SONG (Stephen Rowe)
Here's my transcription from the YouTube video:
PAPER MILL SONG Stephen Rowe
1. I'm a hard-working man of forty-four years. I hale from Stephenville. My family of three, my brothers and me, Made a life round the paper mill; But times are hard in Newfoundland; It's something we all have found; And now any day I'll be out of pay When they shut Abitibi down.
CHORUS: "Belfast Mill" and "The Badger Drive" Were sung by middle-aged men Whose voices have been replaced by the wind, And will never be heard here again.
2. For twenty-two years I've lived and worked And served to do my part, For what do you do when the work is through? Sure the thought of it breaks my heart; For I have a wife and two sweet girls I've raised in this neat little town. With no place to go, for all I know, They'll soon be Alberta bound. CHORUS
3. They say electric costs are great, And threaten to close the mill, But count the cost of a town that is lost For the price of a power bill. These times are hard in Newfoundland; It's something we all have found; And now any day I'll be out of pay When they shut Abitibi down. CHORUS TWICE