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Thread #24157   Message #273252
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
07-Aug-00 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cotton Mill Girls
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cotton Mill Girls
I have it here, and may as well add the missing bits:

1915 I heard it said
Go to cotton country and get ahead
But it's hard times, cotton mill girls,
It's hard times everywhere.

Gilmerton Barlow's a long long way
Down Ellijay to Cartecay
And it's hard times, cotton mill girls,
It's hard times everywhere.

Us kids worked ten hours a day
For fourteen pennies of measly pay
And it's hard times, cotton mill girls,
It's hard times everywhere.

The Poozies had the song from Christine Kydd, who had it from Hedy West.  (pub. Carlin Music Coroporation).

Malcolm