Malvina Reynolds - Carolina Cotton Mill Song
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2010
- Oh I love to get into my clean bed
With its sheets so fair and white,
And when I am in my clean bed,
I sleep thru most the night,
And my dreams are hardly troubled
By the worrying of my mind
For the workers who die of the brown lung
In the mills of Caroline.
Chorus:
Oh the mystical people, they think they are wise,
With the smooth on their faces and stars in their eyes,
But the truths of this system are spoken and sung
By the workers who bear the brown lung.
Oh it's Burlington and Cannon
And the names we wives know well,
Who advertise the sheets and towels
And give us the old soft sell,
And they'd rather buy the government men
With promotions here and there,
Than pay out company profits
For to clean the cotton mill air.
(Chorus)
Oh some people talk of the yin and yang
And walk in a kharma daze,
As though the influence of the stars
Could change mill owners ways,
But the people who work in the cotton mills
They know how the world is run,
And they need some help of an earthly kind
To live their time in the sun.
(Chorus)
Oh the mystics they wear the blue jeans
But their heads are in the stars,
For they do not know how the denim is made
Nor the years of workers' wars.
And my place is not in an ivory tower
Or seeking some power divine,
But it's out on the bricks with the union folks
At the mills in Caroline.
(Chorus) - Hudba
there are no textile mills in America, they have all been put into "Little Boxes" and shipped to China.
@nancyschimmel According to the documentation from "Ear to the Ground" -
media . smithsonianfolkways . org / liner_notes / smithsonian_folkways / SFW40124 . pdf
it was recorded live at "Bread & Roses Festival, 1977"
Thanks for the info.
So few people have visited Malvina Reynolds' videos and it is sad to see empty comment space below. Still, better than a bunch of stupid ones.
@68dharmabum
You can also find Malvina's song lyrics and other notes here:
people wku edu / charles.smith / MALVINA / homep.htm
Do you have a recording of "I Wish You Were Here"? No one has one up anywhere and it seems odd since it's such a wonderful song.
@68dharmabum
That's pretty much the gist of it, that she viewed the mystics as out of touch. She goes into detail about the song's creation here: pacificaradioarchives..org / pdf / transcripts / transcript / malvinareynolds.pdf - replace spaces between slashes - you tube censors u r l s -
Thank you for answering my question by pointing me in the right direction. I have one other question about the song. Am I right, when I hear a "harmonic" being used as the base- line in this song and can anyone tell me what key this is in by listening? Thanks for your help!
@68dharmabum
Someone else will have to answer the music questions, I don't have a clue about that stuff! LOL
Anybody know where this was recorded? The CD recording of this song doesn't have audience response.
Malvinas rocks! We need moor pro-labor pro-human people
Well, there's that whole anti-communism thing in the USA.
Shame they don't really know anything about it, beyond pointing at failed governments who used communism as an excuse to plunder (much like capitalism is abused the same way.)
There's a happy medium between the two extremes. Maybe someday we'll actually achieve it.