Your Share

Intro
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Verse 1
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I was born in the Depression and my daddy's big obsession
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Was a high school education for us kids
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And I remember Papa saying that unless his health was failing
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He'd feed us without welfare, and he did
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There were college men not eating, wouldn't take a job beneath 'em
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You could see them in the soup lines day by day
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While my daddy's only training was to work without complaining
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And to thank God for his blessings every day
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So although his only skill was in the fact that he was willing
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Every night, we went to bed with stomachs filled
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And the day after Pearl Harbor, Papa headed off to war
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For he'd be damned before they'd wreck the things he built

Interlude
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Verse 2
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I'll contribute to and sympathize with orphans and with widowed wives
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But feed an able-bodied man, I won't
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So you're carrying your placards and you're burning up your draft cards
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You're signs read 'give a damn' but I just don't
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There's one thing you can't inherit, you must take your hands and tear it
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From the movements that would drive our country mad
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And that hard-to-win commodity is what you call your liberty
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And many have-nots have not 'cause they have not tried to have
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You think the right to work means 'at the top' and so you quit the job you've got
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On Tuesday, you line up for your welfare
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You may call this sacrilegious, but you have to earn a privilege
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And you'll find you have to work to get your share
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Yes, you'll find you have to work to get your share