Debra Byrne - "The Millworker" (1997)
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00:00My grandfather was a sailor, he blew it off the water
00:21My father was a farmer and I his only daughter
00:28Took up with a no good millworkin' man from Massachusetts
00:34Who dies from too much whiskey and leaves me these three faces to feed
00:48Millwork ain't easy, millwork ain't hard
00:54Millwork, it ain't nothin' but an awful boring job
01:00I'm waiting on a daydream to take me through the morning
01:07And put me in my coffee break where I can have a sandwich and remember
01:17That it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning
01:24And the rest of the afternoon
01:29And the rest of my life
01:47Now my mind begins to wander to the days back on the farm
01:53I can see my father's smile at me swingin' on his arm
02:00I can hear my granddad's stories of the storms along Lake Erie
02:07Vessels and cargoes and fortunes and sailors' lives were lost
02:19Yes, but it's my life's been wasted and I have been the fool
02:26To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool
02:33I can write home every evening starin' at my hands
02:40Swearin' by my sorrow that a young girl won't stand a better chance
02:50May I work your mill just as long as I am able
02:56And never meet the man whose name is on the label
03:02It'd be me and my machine for the rest of the morning
03:09And the rest of the afternoon
03:14And the rest of my life