Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine-Pete Seeger

[ti:Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:100 Greatest Folk Classics - The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine - Pete Seeger [00:00.44]Written by：Seeger [00:00.88]I lived in a town way down south [00:04.60] [00:05.25]By the name of Buffalo [00:07.73] [00:08.55]Worked in the mill with the rest of the trash [00:12.25] [00:12.86]As we're often called you know [00:16.21] [00:17.60]You factory folks who sing this rhyme [00:21.12] [00:21.69]Will surely understand [00:24.02] [00:25.09]The reason why I love you so [00:29.20] [00:30.52]Is I'm a factory hand [00:33.51] [00:34.69]While standing here between my looms [00:38.77]You know I lose no time [00:41.62] [00:42.81]To keep my shuttles in a whizz [00:46.43] [00:47.32]And write this little rhyme [00:50.32] [00:51.70]We rise up early in the morn' [00:55.77]And work all day real hard [00:58.67] [00:59.70]To buy our little meat and bread [01:03.25] [01:04.30]And sugar tea and lard [01:07.48] [01:08.50]We work from weekend to weekend [01:12.57] [01:13.15]And never lose a day [01:16.60]And when that awful payday comes [01:20.12] [01:20.81]We draw our little pay [01:24.56]We then go home on payday night [01:27.99] [01:28.63]And sit down in a chair [01:32.02]The merchant raps upon the door [01:35.94] [01:36.45]He's come to get his share [01:39.29] [01:40.50]When all our little debts are paid [01:44.61]And nothing left behind [01:47.25] [01:47.96]We turn our pockets wrong side out [01:51.39] [01:52.05]But not a cent can we find [01:55.45] [01:56.77]We rise up early in the morn' [02:00.83]And toil from soon to late [02:03.72] [02:04.24]We have no time to primp or fix [02:07.65] [02:08.45]And dress right up to date [02:11.57] [02:12.55]Our children they grow up unlearned [02:15.67] [02:16.19]No time to go to school [02:18.88] [02:20.04]Almost before they have learned to walk [02:24.07]They have learned to spin or spool [02:27.65] [02:28.96]The bossman jerks them round and round [02:32.36] [02:32.86]And whistles very keen [02:35.37] [02:36.09]I'll tell you what the factory kids [02:40.02]Are really treated mean [02:43.38] [02:44.00]The folks in town who dress so fine [02:47.56] [02:48.10]And spend their money free [02:50.61] [02:51.68]Will hardly look at a factory hand [02:55.46] [02:56.56]Who dresses like you and me [02:59.42] [03:00.55]As we go walking down the street [03:03.96] [03:04.53]All wrapped in lint and strings [03:07.55] [03:08.17]They call us fools and factory trash [03:11.94] [03:12.60]And other lowdown things [03:15.70] [03:17.12]Well let them wear their watches fine [03:20.74] [03:21.50]Their rings and pearly strings [03:24.19] [03:25.54]When the day of judgement comes [03:30.27] [03:30.82]We'll make 'em shed their pretty things