Lyr Req: Paper Mill Song (Stephen Rowe)

Subject: Tune Add: you tube paper mill shutting down song
From: mg
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:54 PM

We were talking about mill songs. Here is a Newfoundland paper mill song. He mentions the Badger Drive...great song..on you tube I think. Are there other paper mill songs? mg

Subject: RE: Tune Add: you tube paper mill shutting down so
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 08:00 PM

Mary, dear, did you mean to post the lyrics of an interesting song?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Tune Add: you tube paper mill shutting down song
From: mg
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 12:34 AM

No. I meant to post the You tube but guess I didn'
t. I 'll try to find it. mg

Subject: RE: Tune Add: you tube paper mill shutting down song
From: mg
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 12:57 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tvikIhtPo

click here

Subject: Lyr Add: PAPER MILL SONG (Stephen Rowe)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 07:55 PM

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Whose voices have been replaced by the wind,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