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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Whose voices have been replaced by the wind,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