Cotton Mill - Eddie Noack Chords
Chords: Eddie, D, Chk,, G, A7, Big, Deal.
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"Cotton Mill" - Eddie Noack
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
I was just a kid then, and one of the earliest memories of my childhood was
G
the loom.
D
The loom, with the shuttle going back and forth, making cotton into cloth.
D
And it sounded like:
[Chorus]
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