Hiring was still increasing on the muddy Tennessee reservation and construction continuing, challenges to the meager ground cover that a Tennessee Eastman employee was moved to immortalize anonymously in verse: In order not to check in late,2236 I’ve had to lose a lot of weight, From swimming through a fair-sized flood And wading through the goddam mud. I’ve lost my rubbers and my shoes Perpetually I have the blues My spirits tumble with a thud Because of all this goddam mud. It’s in my system so that when I cut my finger now and then Instead of bleeding just plain blood Out pours a stream of
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