Capo V
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
trad. / Pete Seeger: American Industrial Ballads (1956)
| C | |
| Old man Sargent sitting at the desk, |
| D7 | G7 | |
| The damned old fool won't | give us no | rest. |
| Dm | |
| He'd take the nickels off a dead man's eyes, |
| G7 | |
| To | buy a Coca-cola and a Eskimo Pie. |
| C | |
| I got the | blues, I got the blues, |
| C7 | |
| I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill | blues, |
| F | Fm | |
| Lordy, lordy, | spoolin's hard, |
| C | |
| You know and I know, I don't have to tell: |
| Am | D7 | G7 | |
| You | work for Tom Watson, got to | work like | hell. |
| C | |
| I got the | blues, I got the blues, |
| A7 | D7 | G7 | C | |
| I got the | Winns | boro | Cotton Mill | blues, |
| When I die, don't you bury me at all, |
| Hang me up on the spoolroom wall. |
| Place a bobbin' in my hand, |
| So I can keep on a-workin' in the Promised Land. |
| I got the blues, I got the blues, |
| I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues, |
| Lordy, lordy, spoolin's hard, |
| You know and I know, I don't have to tell: |
| You work for Tom Watson, got to work like hell. |
| I got the blues, I got the blues, |
| I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues, |