David McCarn-Cotton Mill Colic Chords
Tempo:
94.775 bpm
Chords used:
F#
C#
B
G#
D#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[F#] [C#] [F#] [C#]
[F#] [C#] [F#]
When you buy clothes on easy terms, they collect their streets like measly [B] worms.
One dollar [F#] down, and then Lord [G#] knows if you don't make a payment, they'll take your [F#] clothes.
When you go to bed, you can't sleep, you owe so much at the end [B] of the week.
No [F#] use to collect, they're all [G#] that way, pecking at your door [C#] till they get [F#] your pay.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#]
[C#] [F#]
When you go to work, you work like a devil, at the end of the week you're not on the [B] level.
Payday [F#] comes, you pay your [D#m] rent, but [G#] when you get through you've [F#] not got a cent to buy
fatback meat, pinto beans.
Now and then you get turned up [B] green.
No use to [F#] collect, we're all that [G#] way, can't get the money to move [F#] away.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#] [C#]
[F#] Twelve dollars a week, is all we get, how in the heck can we live on [B] that?
I got a [F#] wife and fourteen [G#] kids, we all have [C#] to sleep on two bedsteads.
[F#] Patches on the bridges, holes in the hat, ain't had a shave since the wife got fat.
[B] No use [F#] to collect, every [G#] day at noon, the kids [C#] get to crying in a different [F#] tune.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#]
[C#] [F#]
They run a few days, and then they stand, just to keep down the working [B] man.
We can't [F#] make it, we never [G#] will, as long as we [C#] stay at a lousy [F#] mill.
The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting rich, if I don't starve I'm a son of a [B] gun.
No use [F#] to collect, no use [G#] to raise, we'll never rest till we're in our [F#] grave.
I'm a-gonna starve, nobody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#] [C#] [F#] [C#] [F#]
[N]
[F#] [C#] [F#]
When you buy clothes on easy terms, they collect their streets like measly [B] worms.
One dollar [F#] down, and then Lord [G#] knows if you don't make a payment, they'll take your [F#] clothes.
When you go to bed, you can't sleep, you owe so much at the end [B] of the week.
No [F#] use to collect, they're all [G#] that way, pecking at your door [C#] till they get [F#] your pay.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#]
[C#] [F#]
When you go to work, you work like a devil, at the end of the week you're not on the [B] level.
Payday [F#] comes, you pay your [D#m] rent, but [G#] when you get through you've [F#] not got a cent to buy
fatback meat, pinto beans.
Now and then you get turned up [B] green.
No use to [F#] collect, we're all that [G#] way, can't get the money to move [F#] away.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#] [C#]
[F#] Twelve dollars a week, is all we get, how in the heck can we live on [B] that?
I got a [F#] wife and fourteen [G#] kids, we all have [C#] to sleep on two bedsteads.
[F#] Patches on the bridges, holes in the hat, ain't had a shave since the wife got fat.
[B] No use [F#] to collect, every [G#] day at noon, the kids [C#] get to crying in a different [F#] tune.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#]
[C#] [F#]
They run a few days, and then they stand, just to keep down the working [B] man.
We can't [F#] make it, we never [G#] will, as long as we [C#] stay at a lousy [F#] mill.
The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting rich, if I don't starve I'm a son of a [B] gun.
No use [F#] to collect, no use [G#] to raise, we'll never rest till we're in our [F#] grave.
I'm a-gonna starve, nobody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
[C#] [F#] [C#] [F#] [C#] [F#]
[N]
Key:
F#
C#
B
G#
D#m
F#
C#
B
[F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _
_ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _
When you buy clothes on easy terms, they collect their streets like measly [B] worms.
One dollar [F#] down, and then Lord [G#] knows if you don't make a payment, they'll take your [F#] clothes.
When you go to bed, you can't sleep, you owe so much at the end [B] of the week.
No [F#] use to collect, they're all [G#] that way, pecking at your door [C#] till they get [F#] your pay.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
When you go to work, you work like a devil, at the end of the week you're not on the [B] level.
Payday [F#] comes, you pay your [D#m] rent, but [G#] when you get through you've [F#] not got a cent to buy
fatback meat, pinto beans.
Now and then you get turned up [B] green.
No use to [F#] collect, we're all that [G#] way, can't get the money to move [F#] away.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [F#] _ Twelve _ _ _ dollars a week, is all we get, how in the heck can we live on [B] that?
I got a [F#] wife and fourteen [G#] kids, we all have [C#] to sleep on two bedsteads.
[F#] Patches on the bridges, holes in the hat, ain't had a shave since the wife got fat.
[B] No use [F#] to collect, every [G#] day at noon, the kids [C#] get to crying in a different [F#] tune.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
They run a few days, and then they stand, just to keep down the working [B] man.
We can't [F#] make it, we never [G#] will, as long as we [C#] stay at a lousy [F#] mill.
The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting rich, if I don't starve I'm a son of a [B] gun.
No use [F#] to collect, no use [G#] to raise, we'll never rest till we're in our [F#] grave.
I'm a-gonna starve, nobody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _
When you buy clothes on easy terms, they collect their streets like measly [B] worms.
One dollar [F#] down, and then Lord [G#] knows if you don't make a payment, they'll take your [F#] clothes.
When you go to bed, you can't sleep, you owe so much at the end [B] of the week.
No [F#] use to collect, they're all [G#] that way, pecking at your door [C#] till they get [F#] your pay.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
When you go to work, you work like a devil, at the end of the week you're not on the [B] level.
Payday [F#] comes, you pay your [D#m] rent, but [G#] when you get through you've [F#] not got a cent to buy
fatback meat, pinto beans.
Now and then you get turned up [B] green.
No use to [F#] collect, we're all that [G#] way, can't get the money to move [F#] away.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [F#] _ Twelve _ _ _ dollars a week, is all we get, how in the heck can we live on [B] that?
I got a [F#] wife and fourteen [G#] kids, we all have [C#] to sleep on two bedsteads.
[F#] Patches on the bridges, holes in the hat, ain't had a shave since the wife got fat.
[B] No use [F#] to collect, every [G#] day at noon, the kids [C#] get to crying in a different [F#] tune.
I'm a-gonna starve, everybody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
They run a few days, and then they stand, just to keep down the working [B] man.
We can't [F#] make it, we never [G#] will, as long as we [C#] stay at a lousy [F#] mill.
The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting rich, if I don't starve I'm a son of a [B] gun.
No use [F#] to collect, no use [G#] to raise, we'll never rest till we're in our [F#] grave.
I'm a-gonna starve, nobody will, cause you can't make a living at a cotton mill.
_ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
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