Millworker chords by James Taylor

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Millworker
Words and Music by James Taylor
(c) 1979 Country Road Music

D MajorD C/DC/D D MajorD
D   A/D        D MajorD     G/DG/D       A/D
Now my grandfather was a sailor, he blew in off the water
D MajorD        A/D     G/DG/D      A/D
My father was a farmer and I, his only daughter,
D MajorD        A/D         G/DG/D      A/D
took up with a no-good millworking man from Massachusetts
  D MajorD         A/D     G/DG/D          A/D    D MajorD
who dies from too much whiskey and leaves me these three faces to feed
D MajorD Csus2Csus2 G6/B A7sus4A7sus4

A/D        D MajorD  G/DG/D       A/D
Mill-work ain't easy; mill-work ain't hard
D MajorD          A/D      G/DG/D     A/D
Mill-work, it ain't nothing but an awful boring job
  D MajorD       A/D     G/DG/D         A/D
I'm waiting for a day dream to take me through the morning
  D MajorD       A/D        G/DG/D     A/D      D MajorD
and put me in my coffee break where I can have a sandwich and remember

     C(addD)          G6/B
Then it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning
    Gm/Bb         A7sus4A7sus4
for the rest of the afternoon
          D MajorD     C/DC/D D MajorD C/DC/D
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

  C(addD)           G6/B
So may I work the mills just as long as I am able
  Gm/Bb          A7sus4A7sus4       D MajorD
and never meet the man whose name is on the label
   C(addD)          G6/B
It be me and my machine for the rest of the morning
    Gm/Bb         A7sus4A7sus4
for the rest of the afternoon
          D MajorD     C/DC/D D MajorD C/DC/D
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

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