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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.