G5                         C5 
Once I was a slave at the sawmill 
G5 
Talk about a poor boy,  
 
Talk about a poor boy 
               C5     G5 
Let me have a dollar bill 
 
 
                           C5 
My work was so hard at the sawmill 
G5 
Talk about a poor boy,  
 
Talk about a poor boy 
              C5      G5 
Let me have a dollar bill 
 
 
C5 
See my teardrops falling down  
 
My wife left this sawmill town 
                                   D5 
She said sawmill's life had been a sin 
 
The gravy were much too thin 
 
 
  G5                          C5 
I can't work no more at the sawmill 
G5 
Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy 
              C5      G5 
Let me have a dollar bill 
 
 
                             C5 
If you take your wife to the sawmill 
G5 
How you gonna please her,  
 
How you gonna please her 
                 C5      G5 
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