Carl Perkins

Released: January 1, 1996

Featuring: Bono Johnny Cash Tom Petty Willie Nelson

Songwriter: Jim Garland

Producer: Jim McCullough

I don't want your millions mister
I can't use no diamond ring
I want the right just to live mister
Give me back my job again

I don't want your Rolls Royce mister
I can't use your pleasure yacht
I want some food for these children
Give me back my job again

We work to build this country mister
While you enjoy your life of ease
And you steal all that we build mister
See them folks, they starve and freeze

I don't want your millions mister
I can't use no diamond ring
I want the right to live mister
Give me back my job again

No I don't want your millions mister
I can't use no diamond ring
I want the right to live mister
Give me back My job again

I don't want your food stamps mister
And that welfare line don't interest me
Give me a chance to earn my wages
And give me back my old job please

Songwriters: Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash
Bono, Willie Nelson and Tom Petty

Carl Perkins was one of the founders of Rock and Roll and perhaps best known as the writer and original singer of the rockabilly classic, “Blue Suede Shoes”. At one time, Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley were all on the Sam Phillips' Sun label of Memphis Tennessee at the same time.

Carl Lee Perkins

9 April 1932 – 19 January 1998

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