Cotton Mill

Simplificar Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste "Cotton Mill" - Eddie Noack A-side on the single "Cotton Mill / The End of the Line" (1968) Track 7 of 24 on the album "Psycho - The K-Ark and Allstar Recordings 1962-1969" (2013) Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yJOO8GEni0 [Intro] N.C. A-boom! Chk-chk N.C. A-boom! Chk-chk D A-boom! Chk, chk [Verse 1] D Uncle Walt? Hey, Uncle Walt. Do you hear me? G "What do you want, boy?" D Your field hands are all gone, Uncle Walt. A7 How are we gonna grow that cotton? D "Well, I don't reckon we will, son. G I guess we'll get in touch with those fellers from New York who come down here awhile back D And sell 'em those trees over there A7 And I reckon we'll let 'em build a cotton mill here." D Well, Uncle Walt let 'em build a cotton mill there. G And one day, like a giant swooped his right hand down D He swept away all the pine trees A7 D And he built a three-story-high, red-brick, cotton-picking cotton mill. [Verse 2] G While he was at it, they swept away Uncle Walt too. D A7 He never did know much about legal things like contracts and fine print. D G I was just a kid then, and one of the earliest memories of my childhood was the loom. D The loom, with the shuttle going back and forth, making cotton into cloth. D And it sounded like: [Chorus] D A-boom! Chk-chk N.C. A-boom! Chk-chk D A-boom! Chk, chk, chk [Verse 3] D G 1930 came along: violence, strikes. D Three dollars a week just wouldn't get it. A7 D A plug of chewing tobacc-er, couple pounds of flour and some fatback and molasses. G When they went back to work, they was making six dollars a week. D A7 But not until Clarence Carter- Clarence was Walt Carter's boy, lived next door D Not until Clarence Carter got on this newfangled thing called an elevator G And it fell with him in the cotton mill. D 'course, they brought Clarence home. A7 Then, they took him away again. D And Clarence'll never have to worry about that: [Chorus] D A-boom! Chk-chk N.C. A-boom! Chk-chk D A-boom! Chk, chk, chk [Verse 4] D He won't hear it anymore. D Then there was Sarah that lived down the street. G D At 14 years old, Sarah went to work in the cotton mill, breathing that lint. A7 Man, it's worse than a coal mine. Six dollars a week. D And every time Sarah come out of that cotton mill, she'd be coughing. N.C. D Something like: (*long, wheezing cough*) [Verse 5] D Well, the big year: 1932. G D Roosevelt, Big Deal... New Deal. A7 D Everybody's gonna have a fortune, like A-models and things. D Another strike in the cotton mill. G Machine guns on the roof D And the National Guard throwing cigarettes down like they was going out of style. A7 And all the young kids in the neighborhood picking 'em up and smoking 'em D When they could beat the men to 'em. [Verse 6] D G They finally fixed that elevator, after it fell with a National Guard lieutenant. D I guess everything works out for the best after all. A7 And all the time we were living there D Listening day and night to that sound... that awful sound. [Chorus] D A-boom! Chk, chk D A-boom! Chk, chk D A-boom! Chk, chk, chk, chk