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The Jute Mill Song
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The Jute Mill Song
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A song by Mary Brookbank
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...A song by Mary Brookbank Chorus O, dear me, the mill is running fast And we poor shifters canna get nae rest Shifting bobbins coarse and fine They...
...Mary Brookbank herself a jute worker wrote: "The life of the women workers of Dundee right up to the thirties was ... a living hell of hard work and...
...When folklorist Hamish Henderson asked Mary Brookbank how much of the song came from mill workers she replied: "Only the ditty, 'Oh dear me, the mill's...
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