Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

10 dan't have to tell = You work for Tom Wat-son, got io 9 work like hell. 1 got the

Old man Sargent, sittin’ at the desk,

The damned old fool won't give us no rest.

He'd take the nickels off a dead man’s eyes

To buy a Coca Cola and some Eskimo pies.

I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.

Lordy, lordy, spoolin’s hard, you know and I know

I don't have to tell,

You work for Tom Watson, got to work like heil.

f got the biues, I got the blues,

f got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

When I die, don't bury me at all,

Just hang me up on the spool room wall;

Place a knotter in my hand,

So I can spool in the promised land.

When I die don't bury me deep,

Bury me down on 600 Street,

Place a bobbin in each hand,

So I can doff in the promised land.

A spool is a reel for winding yarn; a knoter iz a little gadget used for tyi

the ends of the yam together, a doffer is a worker who takes filled ing from the

spinning frames. Most of this sort of work was dane by women.