Millworker
Sep 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am by Susie
James Taylor wrote this song for Studs Turkel’s “Working”. Eileen Brennan as the millworker, sung by Jennifer Warnes:
Yeah, but it’s my life has been wasted
And I have been the fool
To let this manufacturer
Use my body for a tool
I ride home every evening
Staring at my hands
Swearing to my sorrow that a young girl
Ought to stand a better chance
So may I work your mills just as long as I am able
And never meet the man whose name is on the label.
