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Company Blues

from YODELADY by Todd Hearon

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lyrics

COMPANY BLUES

I was born in Hazard Holler in the shadow of the mill
Where the coal smoke blows over Hurricane Hill
Where your name is just a number, every payday’s poor
’Cause your scrip floats back to the company store, singing

Toodle-oo and toodle-ee
I don’t know what’s come over me
Toodle-oo and toodle-ay
What the boss man giveth the boss man taketh away

Well my daddy was a rounder
Mama taught me how to pray and sing
She was on the floorboards when they found her
Her cold hand clutching that company wedding ring

I got a little company cabin, it’s a one-room shack
Where I hang my company shovel and my company hat
And my company wife is cooking up them company beans
By the company lantern full of company kerosene, singing

Toodle-oo and toodle-ee
I don’t know what’s come over me
Toodle-oo and toodle-ay
What the boss man giveth the boss man taketh away

Use to dream of something finer
Two mules, a cabbage patch to call my own
In Tennessee or Carolina
But Kentucky done took my blood, it’ll take my soul

See the company children playing in the company dust
By the company river running red with company rust
Where the cost of living’s nothing, boy, but it ain’t free
When your veins runneth over with mercury, singing

Toodle-oo and toodle-ee
I don’t know what’s come over me
Toodle-oo and toodle-ay
What the boss man giveth the boss man taketh away

Toodle-oo and toodle-ee
I don’t know what’s come over me
Toodle-oo and toodle-ay
What the boss man giveth the boss man taketh away

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from YODELADY, released August 5, 2023

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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