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Thread #161372   Message #3833868
Posted By: oldhippie
21-Jan-17 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
Subject: RE: DTStudy: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
The Almanac Singers lyrics above agree with the original issue; "TALKING UNION" Keynote K 303 B (Keynote album 106), July 1941[PETE SEEGER, lead vocal]. according to the website woodyguthrie.de

Greg Brown sings the following lyrics: (nothing new but order changed a bit)

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.

Now, I don't want your Rolls-Royce, Mister,
I don't want your pleasure yacht.
All I want's just 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.

So, 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.

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 people free

So, 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.