Magpie - Spinning Mills of Home

Spinning Mills of Home
(Performed by Magpie – Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner)

Early Monday morning
I keep thinking that I'm late to work
Why didn't someone wake me
Guess the mills are down again
Three years I've been trying to raise
My kids on card room wages
Guess it's time to hit the road and try
My luck up North again

On the highway heading South
On the highway heading North
Just back and forth
Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone
From the rolling mills of Gary
To the rolling hills
And spinning mills of home

All along the river
Railroad tracks turned red and rusty
Cotton fields all dry and dusty
You can taste it in your mouth
Now you've heard people say
How they've got one foot in the grave
Well, I’ve got one in Indiana
And the other in the South

On the highway heading South
On the highway heading North
Just back and forth
Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone
From the rolling mills of Gary
To the rolling hills
And spinning mills of home

I wish that they would write it down
The way someone who knows their work
Can have their labor bought and sold
Like cotton by the pound
It's just too hard to choose between
A job at home for lousy pay
And making real good money
In some Northern factory town

On the highway heading South
On the highway heading North
Just back and forth
Sometimes I feel like a rolling stone
From the rolling mills of Gary
To the rolling hills
And spinning mills of home