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Thread #161372 Message #3833813
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Jan-17 - 03:09 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
Subject: DT Corr: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mr
On this Trump inauguration day, I'm researching the songs in the "Rich & Poor" chapter of the Rise Up Singing Songbook. Seems fitting.
Here are the lyrics for this song that we have in the Digital Tradition:
I DON"T WANT YOUR MILLIONS, MISTER (Jim Garland)
cho: I don't want your millions, mister. I don't want your diamond ring. All I want's just live and let live, 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, Now 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've built, mister, Now our children starve and freeze.
Yes, you have a land deed, mister, The money is all in your name. But where's the work that you did mister ? I'm demanding back my job again.
Think me dumb if you wish, mister, Call me green or blue or red. There's just one thing that I know, mister, Our hungry babies must be fed.
We'll organize together, mister, In one big united band, And with a Farmer-Labor party We will win our just demands.
Take the two old parties, mister, No difference in them I can see. But with a Farmer-Labor party, We will set the workers free.
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I put two verses in italics because I can't figure out where they came from, or if they were actually written by Jim Garland.