Mbo - you mentioned a version of this song by the Poozies. Can you post the lyrics? Apparently, it isn't in the Forum or the Database.
-Joe Offer-

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COTTON MILL GIRLS

I worked in the cotton mill all of my life,
And I ain't got nothin' but a Barlow knife,
It's a hard time cotton mill girls,
It's a hard time everywhere.

CHORUS It's a hard time cotton mill girls,
It's a hard time cotton mill girls,
It's a hard time cotton mill girls,
It's a hard time everywhere.

When I die, don't bury me at all,
Just hang me up on the spinning room wall,
Pickle my bones in alcohol,
It's a hard time everywhere.
CHORUS

(adapted by Hedy West ©1962, Hedy West)
JRO ^^

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This version of the song is from The Collected Reprints from Sing Out! Vol 1-6 (the pink book). The notes say:

Hedy West, daughter of Georgia poet Don West, learned this song near her native Cartersville in the heart of the Southern Appalachians.