Sawmill

                                          (Mel Tillis)


G                         C
Once I was a slave at the sawmill
G
Talk about a poor boy, 

Talk about a poor boy
               C     G
Let me have a dollar bill



                           C
My work was so hard at the sawmill
G
Talk about a poor boy, 

Talk about a poor boy
              C      G
Let me have a dollar bill


C
See my teardrops falling down 

My wife left this sawmill town
                                   D7
She said sawmill's life had been a sin

The gravy were much too thin


  G                          C
I can't work no more at the sawmill
G
Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy
              C      G
Let me have a dollar bill


                             C
If you take your wife to the sawmill
G
How you gonna please her, 

How you gonna please her
                 C      G
When she wants a dollar bill


She'll run away and leave you at the sawmill
Women like a dollar, 
Women like a dollar. 
Yes and women always will.


See my teardrops falling down 
My wife left this sawmill town
She said sawmill's life had been a sin
The gravy were much too thin. 
I can't work no more at the sawmill
Yes and women like a dollar, 
yes and women like a dollar
Yes and women always will