Millworker

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Now my grandfather was a sailor,
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 he blew in off the water
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My father was a farmer and I, 
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his only daughter,
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took up with a no-good 
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millworking man from Massachusetts
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who dies from too much whiskey and 
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leaves me these three faces to feed

( D Csus2 G6/B A7sus4 )

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Mill-work ain't easy; mill-work 
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ain't hard
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Mill-work, it ain't nothing but an
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 awful boring job
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I'm waiting for a day dream to 
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take me through the morning
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and put me in my coffee break 
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where I can have a sandwich and 
remember

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Then it's me and my machine for the 
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rest of the morning
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for the rest of the afternoon
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and the rest of my life
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Now my mind begins to wander to the 
days back on the farm
I can see my father smiling at me, 
swingin' on his arm
I can hear my grand-dad's stories of
 the storms out on Lake Erie
where vessels and cargos and 
fortunes and sailor's lives were 
lost

Yes, but it's my life has been 
wasted, and I have been the fool
to let this manufacture use my body 
for a tool.
I can ride home in the evening, 
staring at my hands
swearing by my sorrow that a young 
girl ought to stand a better chance

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So may I work the mills just as long
 as I am able
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and never meet the man whose 
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name is on the label
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It be me and my machine for the rest
 of the morning
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for the rest of the afternoon
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and the rest of my life
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