Pete Seeger - I Don't Want Your Millions Mister

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 is 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.

      "I Don't Want Your Millions Mister" was written by Jim Garland in the 30's, while working as a union organizer for the National Miners Union. He based the melody of the song on an old Carter Family tune "East Virginia Blues". Since then, things haven't changed much.