Chorus
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Fruit Of The Loom is not so romantic as some would assume by the words that’s been said
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Working the looms is not so fantastic, your health really suffers producing the thread
Verse
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
The dark dusty mills hid the truth from the nation, the factory girls frills had been paid for in blood
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
When safety came in so did modernisation and now there is dust where half the looms stood
Chorus
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Fruit Of The Loom is not so romantic as some would assume by the words that’s been said
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Working the looms is not so fantastic, your health really suffers producing the thread
Verse
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
New methods and change nowadays are abundant, the mills rearrange and pay higher rates
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
With eighty percent of all weavers redundant and half of the looms behind locked factory gates
Chorus
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Fruit Of The Loom is not so romantic as some would assume by the words that’s been said
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Working the looms is not so fantastic, your health really suffers producing the thread
Verse
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
The noise in the shed rules out conversation, it rattles your head, puts your nerve ends on test
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
And as you work hard at your textile creation the dust weaves its own kind of cloth in your chest
Chorus
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Fruit Of The Loom is not so romantic as some would assume by the words that’s been said
[Em] [Am] [Em] [D] [Em] [Am] [Em] [D]
Working the looms is not so fantastic, your health really suffers producing the thread
[Instrumental Verse]
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [Am] [G] [C] [G] [D]
