The Spinning Mills of Home-Art Thieme

[ti:The Spinning Mills of Home] [ar:Art Thieme] [al:On the Wilderness Road] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Spinning Mills of Home - Art Thieme [00:06.83]Early Monday morning [00:07.99] [00:08.85]I keep thinking that I'm late for work [00:11.09] [00:11.71]Why didn't someone wake me [00:13.52] [00:14.09]Guess the mills are down again [00:15.85] [00:16.99]For years I've been trying [00:18.60]To raise my kids on cardroom wages [00:21.20] [00:21.90]It's time to hit the road [00:23.81] [00:24.47]Try my luck up north again [00:26.43] [00:27.16]On the highway headed south [00:29.16] [00:29.87]On the highway headed north [00:31.83] [00:32.38]Back and forth [00:33.23]Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone [00:36.30] [00:38.02]From the rolling mills of Gary [00:40.00] [00:40.64]To the rolling hills [00:42.02]And the spinning mills of home [00:44.15] [00:49.90]All along the river [00:51.35]Railroad tracks turn red and rusty [00:54.47]Cotton fields are dry and dusty [00:57.18]You can taste it in your mouth [00:59.14] [00:59.98]Well I've heard people say [01:02.19]How they got one foot in the grave [01:04.32] [01:05.19]I got one in Indiana [01:06.99] [01:07.71]And the other one's in the south [01:10.22]On the highway headed south [01:12.41] [01:13.22]On the highway headed north [01:15.00] [01:15.60]Back and forth [01:16.48]Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone [01:19.58] [01:21.00]From the rolling mills of Gary [01:23.19] [01:23.78]To the rolling hills [01:25.18]And the spinning mills of home [01:27.20] [01:32.17]I wish someone would write it down [01:34.77]That way someone that knows the work [01:37.43]Can gauge the labor [01:38.79]Have it bought and sold [01:40.27]Like cotton by the pound [01:42.21] [01:42.81]It's just too hard to choose between [01:45.57]A job back home for lousy pay [01:48.33]And makin' real good wages [01:50.62]In some northern factory town [01:52.86] [01:53.46]On the highway headed south [01:55.50] [01:56.10]On the highway headed north [01:58.13]Just back and forth [01:59.82]Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone [02:02.44] [02:04.18]From the rolling mills of Gary [02:06.36] [02:06.92]To the rolling hills [02:08.28]And the spinning mills of home