Taylor James - Millworker guitar tab

Millworker

Words and Music by James Taylor

(c) 1979 Country Road Music

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Now my grandfather was a sailor, he blew in off the water

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My father was a farmer and I, his only daughter,

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took up with a no-good millworking man from Massachusetts

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who dies from too much whiskey and leaves me these three faces to feed

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Mill-work ain't easy; mill-work ain't hard

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Mill-work, it ain't nothing but an awful boring job

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I'm waiting for a day dream to take me through the morning

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and put me in my coffee break where I can have a sandwich and remember

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Then it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning

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for the rest of the afternoon

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and the rest of my life

Now my mind begins to wander to the days back on the farm

I can see my father smiling at me, swingin' on his arm

I can hear my grand-dad's stories of the storms out on Lake Erie

where vessels and cargos and fortunes and sailor's lives were lost

Yes, but it's my life has been wasted, and I have been the fool

to let this manufacture use my body for a tool.

I can ride home in the evening, staring at my hands

swearing by my sorrow that a young girl ought to stand a better chance

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So may I work the mills just as long as I am able

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and never meet the man whose name is on the label

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It be me and my machine for the rest of the morning

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for the rest of the afternoon

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and the rest of my life

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A/D: xx0220

G/D: xx0433

Csus2: x3x03x

G6/B: x2x03x

Gm/Bb: x1x03x

A7sus4: x02030

C(add9):x32030

C/D: xx0010