Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  



I Don't Have Anything

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1968 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1996.


He said I don't have anything,
He said things can hold you down.
If I had a house
I'd carry it around like a snail,
If I had a mail box
I'd wait for the mail.
If you buy a plot of ground,
That's where you are bound,
If you have keys and locks, they lock you in.
He said I don't have anything.

He said I don't have anything,
He said things can hold you down.
The dandelion's seed,
He throws it in the air anywhere.
He doesn't seem to care
Who owns the title deed
To the land on which he stands,
Holding up his hands,
To send his child out on a silver wing.
He said I do not own a thing.


Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- The Malvina Reynolds Songbook

Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- [none]


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