Bumper to bumper goin' west in the rain slowin' down when the bottom fell out you can smell that money goin' round and round dirty smoke blowin' up in the air dirty smoke blowin' up in the air
there was a one room shack and a one room school bad new in the pigeon river sawmill sawdust stuck in your lungs and your head cant hear it thunder no your head cant hear it thunder
chorus do you live to eat do you eat to live for a dollar a day on the river damn Vanderbilts hold the keys to the city eat your supper son and forget it
speakin' in tongues strung out on the gospel somethin' i know nuthin' about he knew ev'ry word to the great speckled bird mister 40 year papermill man he was a fourty year papermill man
third shift sunrise mouths to feed puttin' food on the table amen blood's thicker than water when ya give a damn mister 40 year papermill man he was a forty year papermill man
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one son of a gun another man o' God knows ev'ry nail and dime that was driven and spent from the ground up to heaven for a 40 year papermill man he was a forty year papermill man
there's a power more greater than me an' you there's plan i jus' dont understand that sawmill blade made a bird in the hand for a 40 year papermill man he was a forty year papermill man.