DELLA MAE
Boston Town
C. Woodsmith
Standing on the floor
In the “City of the Spindles”
Got me a job, lift me up to the middle
The Offering painted a very pretty picture
that the work at the mills
held the promise of the Scripture
But a girl like me
was worked to the bone,
your fingers bled and your body moaned
14 hours a day and then
my paycheck was
half that of the men
Looking down with oppressions face
the pile of money
they steal and waste
Then they said they'd have to
cut our pay
so we broke our cage
and formed the FLRA
'They said what a
waste of a pretty girl
to let the labor flag unfurl
I say more can you take from me?
I own my hands and my dignity
So pass me the match and we'll strike it on the ground
and we'll head back down to Boston town
We could start a fire and they'll never put it out,
We'll head back down to Boston town
They said what a
waste of a pretty girl
to let the labor flag unfurl
I said more can you take from me?
I own my hands and my dignity
So, pass me the match and we'll strike it on the ground
and we'll head back down to Boston town
We could start a fire and they'll never put it out,
We'll head back down to Boston town
So pass me the match and we'll strike it on the ground
and we'll head back down to Boston town
We could start a fire and they'll never put it out,
We'll head back down to Boston Town
Can't Go Back
C. Woodsmith, C. Hartman
In the house with all the paintings on the walls
you will find that you are pacing down the hall
and when the winter comes you'll see where I've been
Oh, if you never go you can't go back again
I have given up and I have gone to bed
When the sunset fills the sky with gold and red
I've held on to money I know I should spend
Oh, if you never go you can't go back again
If you never go, If you never go
Are you waiting for the words to come out right?
But when you move your lips they're silent as the night
Write a letter that you will never send
If you never go you can't go back again
If you never go, If you never go
I would write the book a million more times
I would live my life to read between the lines
But words are just a mark made by a pen
If you never go you can't go back again
If you never go, If you never go
Time won't ever wait for you
you know it won't you know it won't
Time, she is always true
if you never go X
If you never go, if you never go
Shambles
C. Woodsmith, C. Hartman
I left through the door
like you left on the light
When you figure it out
it won't happen twice
My feeling on fate
is that I call the shots,
when it all goes to hell
I just connect the dots
Why do you say you're sorry baby
when I'm finally up and gone
I'll leave it to you to make sense of the shambles
that you made of yourself
while I carried on
Sometimes when I pour myself
too much to drink
It's like novicane
on the place where I think
And the devils I'm fighting
don't seem to mind
when they get knocked down
they just get back in line
CHORUS
Do you think for a moment
that I'd be your fool
that I'd let you down easy
give in to your rules
you play the joker
and thought I was blind
but its too late now to apologize
Why do you say you're sorry baby
when I'm finally up and gone
I'll leave it to you to make sense of the shambles
that you made of yourself
while I carried on
High Away and Gone
C. Woodsmith, C. Hartman
Going up on the mountain say
High away from the valley
Going up on the mountain Say
High away and gone X2
If you keep on digging the land
High away from the valley
Blow off a top and turn it to sand
High away gone
Massey's there to dole the draw
High away from the valley
But they'll give you a little then take the haul
High away and gone
CHORUS
Well my brother what will you do
High away from the valley
When the land you love is blackened through
High away and gone
When the song you sang breaks your back
High away from the valley
When the lungs you breathe with turn to black
High away gone
CHORUS X2
Oh my sister what will you say
High away from the valley
When coal won't buy your bread today
High away and gone
When the man you love is in the mine
High away from the valley
When black maria says its time
Going up on the mountain say
High away from the valley
I'm going up on the mountain say
High away and gone X2