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As Seen on TV
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Plainfolk's Song "Amoskeag Mill" As Seen on TV |
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Boston's WCVB TV Chronicle Series - "New England Mill
Makeovers" |
| This video clip features Plainfolk
performing Amoskeag Mill and interview with the song's author Charlie Ball. |
| Description:
Boston's television station - WCVB - and their long
running series "Chronicle" recently aired a show focused
on the history, influence and restoration of New
England's historic mills. This show
included a segment on the Amoskeag Mill located along
the Merrimac River in
Manchester, NH. Featured in this segment was Plainfolk's song Amoskeag Mill, film footage of
the band performing the song and an interview with band
member and the
song's author Charlie Ball on location at the Mill.
View this segment of Chronicle's "New England's Mill
Makeovers" using your preferred media player by clicking on a link below. |
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Amoskeag Mill
© 1996 Charlie Ball
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Amoskeag Mill, your
spirit has flown
Shadows have lengthened
and the weeds they have grown
And the Merrimac River wanders lost and alone
Amoskeag Mill, your spirit has flown |
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Amoskeag Mill, weave us
a tale
Like you wove the wool
skeins and the cottons in bale
Our eyes they grow dim
and our memories fail
Amoskeag Mill, weave us
a tale |
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Chorus: Two miles long,
half a mile wide
Twenty thousand men and
women working inside
Lived for their work and
they worked till they died
Call it damn hard work
call it Amoskeag pride
Let the sun beat down
let the wind blow chill
But nothing stopped
production at the Amoskeag Mill
Call it Amoskeag luck or
the good Lord's will
But the looms kept
running at the Amoskeag Mill |
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Amoskeag
Mill, sleeping soundly and well
Some say you were heaven, some say you were hell
Such are the tales that the old men tell
Amoskeag Mill, sleep soundly and well
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Amoskeag Mill, I'd like
to know
Where does the soul of
an old mill go?
I still hear your song
but now it's soft and it's low
Amoskeag Mill, I'd like
to know
Chorus |
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Amoskeag Mill, ain't it
a shame
How everything's
changing, how nothing's the same
How only the river
wanders calling your name
Amoskeag Mill, ain't it
a shame
Chorus |
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