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Thread #6196 Message #3867698
Posted By: GUEST,Neil G
22-Jul-17 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: King Cotton (Mike Harding)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: King Cotton (Mike Harding)
I'm looking for the words of another 'King Cotton' song but not the one by Mike or 5PP. I have the first verse, the chorus and the last verse which goes:
There was warp and weft and weaving
When the looms were on the go
In the cotton towns of Lancashire
One hundred years ago
There was work when the looms were busy
But none when the idled all day
So the weavers learned to sing this song
Whenever they were at play
CH
When trade is low the loom moves slow
There is not much cloth to be made
King Cotton is sad for the working lad
For he'll starve at the weaving trade
When the shuttle goes 'click' the loom moves quick
There is plenty of cloth to be made
King Cotton is glad for the working lad
For there's brass in the weaving trade
Now the loom are smashed and broken
No shuttles can be found
The King is dead but still his ghost
Haunts every cotton town
His mill are quiet and empty
Stark windows face the sky
But the old ones still can sing the song
Of weaving days gone by.
What I need are the second and third verses - anyone able to help???