WE BUNDLED UP OUR DIGNITY AWAY FROM THE SCORN. WE WERE BENT ON TRYING TO KEEP OUR BODIES WARM WE BURNT LIPS ON COFFEE AND SHUFFLED OUR FEET WE STOOD IN LINE FOREVER OUT ON THE STREET THOUGH I WAS JUST ONE OF THE ONE OUT OF FIVE Tims original posting is here (scroll down) and includes all the songs and his address but here are a few I’ve selected to give you a flavour. blues Americana genre ( which is not really my area of expertise but I thought I would try and help the guy out anyway as he seems a really ‘sound geezer’ as we say this side of the pond I just think it’d be nice if some musicians can use them so that one mans thoughts are expressed to a wider audience.Īt first glance they seemed quite punk-ish but on closer inspection they are more in the alt-country. You may needs to edit them down or re-write the odd line. They’re based on real life and issues that the working man in the US has to deal with, but seem pretty universal in their themes. They seem pretty well put together to me. So, if you are in a band and the music flows freely but you get a bit stuck for lyrics try some of these. Jazz…Blues…Captain Beefheart…Dylan…Union radical activist thinker and overdrinker… Like Popeye said: “I-yam-waat-I-yam…” Played harmonica for over forty years. What you read in the introduction and in my bio is about all there is. I emailed Tim, asking his permission to do this piece… this is his reply.ĭear brother, Go ahead with you plans. Although Mills acknowledges that his politics are leftist, he believes that as radicals we must start with the world as it is, not as we’d wish it to be Mills writes guest columns appearing in the Rockford Register Star and other publications located in northern Illinois where he resides. He is a long-time union member and has served as an elected official, but claims to be proudest of his work on union newsletters. Tim Mills is a labor educator/activist and began this life as a conscientious objector during the Viet Nam War. I did a bit of googling – it seemed genuine. He listed his address and phone number (I assume because he only has the internet at work and uses it occasionally for leisure in his breaks) and 20 odd complete song lyrics. It’s been fun! Since then, I have been on a search to find someone who likes my words enough to music-ize them. (below), You’ll find a few of my earliest compositions along with my latest efforts. Beginning in 2013, I began to write a bunch of poems. I have always enjoyed writing, mostly political or historical stuff. I am a 61 year old factory worker who lives near Garden Prarie, Illinois.
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