Potter Valley Mill

Words and masic-Darryi Cherney & Judi Bari,U.S.

good folks in a bind They're clos- ing down the mill at Pot-ter Val -

They're packing up their band saws

And they're movin’ out of town.

They're closing down the mill at Potter Valley

And | can't believe the mess we'll leave behind.

Now Ray says there's timber back there,

They'l! haul it right past town.

Sam says they'll reopen

If another mill burns down.

The company says it's environmentalists

impin’ up their sty}e.

But as I look out on the Mendocino Forest

I can't see a tree for miles.

Now when they doubled our shift five years ago,

I knew we soon would see this day.

And our property values are dropping,

The machinery cath a oh

machinery ought to stay right here,

To move it would be a crime.

‘We've kept it fixed and runnin’ for fifty years,

We ought to fix it one more time.