When I was a little thing
Up in Pickens County
My daddy took me from the farm
To be a mill town baby

And it's goodbye Monday blues
Goodbye card-room fever
Cotton dust has got my lungs
You know I'm bound to leave you

Not a man in all these mills
Could beat me once for doffing
Now it's all that I can do
To set here without coughing

And it's goodbye Monday blues
Goodbye card-room fever
Cotton dust has got my lungs
You know I'm bound to leave you

Old man staring at his glass
In some back street bar room
These was once the fastest hands
In spinning, spool or card room

And it's goodbye Monday blues
Goodbye card-room fever
Cotton dust has got my lungs
You know I'm bound to leave you

And it's goodbye Monday blues
Goodbye card-room fever
Cotton dust has got my lungs
You know I'm bound to leave you