It is a true song about Aragon, Georgia, a small town near the Alabama border, in 1971. The Aragon Mill was built in 1898 by Wolcott and Campbell of New York Mills, New York. The plant continued operation until shutting down in 1970. The red brick chimney with the white brick letters "Aragon" is real. So is the line "It's so quiet I can't sleep", spoken by a loom fixer whose front porch overlooked the now silent weave room.
Recorded by The Red Clay Ramblers, Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett, Rosalee Sorrels, Peggy Seeger and others.
I learned it from Bok, Muir and Trickett.
