Down in the Old Dark Mills

By Joe Hill

1879.10.7-1915.9.19


How well I do remember
That mill along the way,
Where she and I were working
For fifty cents a day.
She was my little sweetheart;
I met her in the mill --
It's a long time since I saw her.
But I love her still.

         CHORUS:
         Down in the Old Black Mill,
         That's where first we met.
         Oh! that loving thrill
         I shall ne'er forget;
         And those dreamy eyes,
         Blue like summer skies.
         She was fifteen --
         My pretty queen --
         In the Old Black Mill.

We had agreed to marry
When she'd be sweet sixteen.
But then -- one day I crushed it --
My arm in the machine.
I lost my job forever --
I am a tramp disgraced.
My sweetheart still is slaving
In the same old place.

DayPoems Poem No. 2461
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