Eddie Noack – Your Share (Guitar)

"Your Share" - Eddie Noack
B-side on the single "He's Getting Smaller (With Each Drink) / Your Share" (1972)

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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

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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