Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster

Down in Hamlet, North Carolina
They had a chicken plant sure did explode
Oh, them tar heels trapped like burnin' rats
'Cause the boss man chained the doors closed
My mama's born in a town called Hamlet
Sleepy little place on the Seaboard line
And my paw-paw worked on the railroad
And my granny went out her mind
Well, the railroad, it went busted
Like Richmond County ain't broke enough
And this Yankee carpetbagger
He wanna make some money off Hamlet's bad luck
So he built a brand new chicken-fixin' plant
And they paid that minimum wage
But the boss man said no unions
Or he gonna move his plant far away
Merle Etta Johnson, she was late for work
Heard a thunderin' roar off the highway
Musta been NASCAR down at Rockingham
Or a sign it Merle Etta Johnson's judgment day
8:15 in the mornin'
Chicken plant burst into flames
People trampled, mashed and burned up
Just to keep the profit margin one iota higher
Everybody gotta work in this world
Some people lucky, some folks ain't
But that bastard that chained the doors shut
I'm gonna rip him through the paint
When I was a little boy with a buzzsaw hair cut
Goin' down to Hamlet, to see the trains
Now the tourists stop on the highway
Take a little look at the chicken plant workers' remains