The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52957   Message #812843
Posted By: toadfrog
27-Oct-02 - 09:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Greenback Dollar Bill (from Louis Prima)
Subject: Lyr Add: I DON'T WANT YOUR MILLIONS, MISTER
Pete Seeger used to sing:

I don't want your millions mister,
I don't want your diamond rings.
All I want is the right to live mister,
Give to me my job again.

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 your life of ease.
You've stolen all we worked for, mister,
Now our children starve and freeze.

Think me dumb if you wish, mister,
Call me green or blue or red,
But one thing I sure know mister,
My hungry babies must be fed.

This was sung to one of the known tunes to East Virginia, so I think it is a parody. The only online source referring to this song says it was written by "Jim." Now the Boss's Songbook in turned parodied that song. The parody was usually said to be in bad taste; it begins:

I don't want your union mister!
I don't want your David Becks!
All I want's your million dollars,
Then I'll wring your scrawny necks!