Cotton Mill Colic-Pete Seeger

[ti:Cotton Mill Colic] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Industrial Ballads Volume 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cotton Mill Colic - Pete Seeger [00:05.57]When you go to work well you work like the devil [00:07.60]At the end of the week you're not on the level [00:09.92]Payday comes you ain't got a penny [00:12.21]'Cause when you pay your bills you got so many [00:14.41]I'm a-gonna starve and everybody will [00:16.58]'Cause you can't make a livin' in a cotton mill [00:18.91] [00:33.38]When you buy clothes on easy terms [00:35.51]Collector treats you like a measly worm [00:38.04]One dollar down and the Lord knows [00:40.16]If you can't make a payment [00:41.39]They take your clothes [00:42.01] [00:42.69]I'm a-gonna starve and everybody will [00:44.17] [00:44.75]'Cause you can't make a livin' in a cotton mill [00:46.83] [00:52.06]Payday comes you pay your rent [00:53.87]End of the week you ain't got a cent [00:56.24]To buy fat-backed meat pinto beans [00:58.49]Cook up a mess o' turnip greens [01:00.93]I'm a-gonna starve and everybody will [01:03.05]'Cause you can't make a livin' in a cotton mill [01:05.24] [01:16.51]Ashes to ashes and dust to dust [01:18.24]Let the rich man live and the poor man bust [01:20.68]We'll never make it we never will [01:23.23]As long as we work in a rounding mill [01:25.63] [01:26.16]I'm a-gonna starve and everybody will [01:28.45]'Cause you can't make a livin' in a cotton mill