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Your Share lyrics by Eddie Noack

I was born in the depression
And my daddy’s big obsession
Was a high school education
For us kids

And I remember papa saying
That unless his health was failing
He’d feed us without welfare
And he did

There were college men not eatin’
Wouldn’t take a job beneath ‘em
You could see them in the soup lines
Day by day

While my daddy’s only training
Was to work without complaining
And to thank God for his blessings
Every day

So although his only skill was
In the fact that he was willing
Every night we went to bed
With stomachs filled

And the day after Pearl Harbor
Papa hеaded off to war
For he’d be damnеd before they’d wreck the things
He’d built

I’ll contribute to and sympathize
With orphans and with widowed wifes
But feed an able-bodied man
I won’t

So you’re carrying your placards
And you’re burning up your draft cards
Your signs read „give a damn”
But I just don’t

There is one thing you can inherit
You must take your hands and tear it
From the movements that would drive our country mad

And that ??? commodity
Is what you call your liberty
And many have-nots have not because they have not tried to have

You think the right to work means at the top
And so you quit the job that you’ve got
On Tuesday you line up for
Your welfare

You may call this sacrilegious
But you have to earn the privilege
And you’ll find you have to work to get
Your share

Yes you’ll find you have to work to get
Your share