Here are the lyrics from the People's Songbook, edited by Waldemar Hille (©1948, People's Artists - 1956 printing), page 94 I DON'T WANT YOUR MILLIONS, MISTER (Jim Garland) CHORUS I don't want your millions, mister; I don't want your diamond ring. All I want is the right to live, mister; Give me back my job again. (Repeat chorus after each verse) I don't want your Rolls Royce, mister; I don't want your pleasure yacht; All I want is food for my babies; Give to me my old job back. We worked to build this country, mister, While you enjoyed a life of ease; You've stolen all that we built, mister; Now our children starve and freeze. Think me dumb if you wish, mister, Call me green, or blue, or red; This one thing I sure know, mister; My hungry babies must be fed. Take the two old parties, mister; No difference in them I can see, But with a Farmer-Labor party, We could set the workers free. Copyright 1947 by People's Songs, Inc. Can't say that I think much of the People's Songbook's overuse of semicolons. I don't know yet whether the two additional verses in the Digital Tradition are from Jim Garland.
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