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Thread #161372 Message #3833816
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Jan-17 - 03:21 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
Subject: ADD Version: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
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.