Cotton Mill Blues

by Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles

I have a pleasant time
Trying to sing the cotton mill rhyme;
Live in Belmont, a lousy town,
Work in the mill by the name of Crown.

Cho. Got the cotton mill blues,
    Got the cotton mill blues,
    Got the cotton mill blues,
      On my mind.

Perhaps you'd like to know my name,
You never will, I don't sing for fame;
Sing so the well-off classes know,
How a cotton mill man has to go.

chorus

We have hard times, you all well know,
To church we never get to go;
When the Sabbath comes we are tied down,
Workin' the whole week 'round.

chorus

Uptown people call us trash,
Say we never have no cash;
That is why the people all fret,
Call us ignorant factory set.

Chorus

Education we have none,
Papa, mama, daughter, or son;
That is why the people all fret,
Call us the ignorant factory set.


Recorded 29-30 Ocotber 1929 NYC (mx GEX 2460-A)
Released on Paramount 3254 (nov 1930)