Mill Boys

Album: Everyone Is Everybody Else (1974)
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  • Sky was black, Lord, rain came pouring down
    Number 12 bus shuffling down Shaw Road way
    Mules keep spinning, black-faced lifers peck the ground
    Sun comes up like lightning over Tandle Hills grey
    We are mill boys, stuck on the hill boys
    Stuck in the mill boys, 'till our dying day
    We are mill boys, stuck on the hill boys
    Stuck in the mill boys, 'till our dying day


    Cotton mill will get you, boy, she'll take you to your grave
    Tell you boy to use your head, apprentice out your days
    You'll end up a nothing, buy, with cotton as your trade
    Sun comes up like lightning over Tandle Hills grey

    We are mill boys, stuck on the hill boys
    Stuck in the mill boys, 'till our dying day
    We are mill boys, stuck on the hill boys
    Stuck in the mill boys, 'till our dying day


    It's easy to see a poor boy's blues
    When he's working every day
    It's harder to be there in his shoes
    He was born to be that way Writer/s: JOHN LEES
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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