Papermill Man - Malcolm Holcombe, Futureman, Drea Merritt

Bumper to bumper goin' west in the rain

Slowin' down when the bottom fell out

You can smell that money goin' round and round

Dirty smoke blowin' up in the air

Dirty smoke blowin' up in the air

There was a one room shack and a one room school

Bad new in the pigeon river

Sawmill sawdust stuck in your lungs

And your head can’t hear it thunder

No your head can’t hear it thunder

Do you live to eat

Do you eat to live

For a dollar a day on the river

Damn vanderbilts hold the keys to the city

Eat your supper son and forget it

Speakin' in tongues strung out on the gospel

Somethin' i know nuthin' about (nuthin' about)

He knew ev’ry word to the great speckled bird

Mister 40 year papermill man

He was a fourty year papermill man

Third shift sunrise mouths to feed

Puttin' food on the table amen

Blood’s thicker than water (thicker than water) when ya give a damn

Mister 40 year papermill man

He was a forty year papermill man

Do you live to eat

Do you eat to live

For a dollar a day on the river

Damn vanderbilts hold the keys to the city

Eat your supper son (Hey) and forget it

One son of a gun another man o' God

Knows ev’ry nail and dime

That was driven and spent from the ground up to heaven

For a 40 year papermill man

He was a forty year papermill man

There’s a power more greater than me an' you

And there’s plan i jus' dont understand

That sawmill blade made a bird in the hand

For a 40 year papermill man

He was a forty year papermill man

Do you live to eat

Do you eat to live

For a dollar a day on the river

Damn vanderbilts hold the keys to the city

Eat your supper son and forget it

Do you live to eat

Do you eat to live

For a dollar a day on the river

Damn vanderbilts hold the keys to the city

Eat your supper son and forget it

(Hey, ay-ay-ay-ay-ay)

Forget it