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