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COTTON-MILL COLIC
d. No. 1629. Ace. on guitar and sung by Joe Sharp of Skyline Farms, Scottsboro, Ala., in Washington, D.C., 1939. By courtesy of Nicholas Ray. See also "Cotton Mill Blues." Decca 5559.
The story of what happens to the cotton farmer when he becomes a cotton-mill worker, with the "collection man" as the villain of the piece. |
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1 When you buy clothes on easy terms, The collector treats you like measly worms; One dollar down and then, Lord knows, If you don't make a payment they'll take your clothes. When you go to bed, you can't sleep, You owe so much at the end of the week. No use to collect, they're all that way, Peckin' at your door till they get your pay.
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