Malvina
Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems
The Man Says Jump
Notes: words and music
by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1965 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1993.
Well the man says jump,
Everybody jump,
And the man says jump,
Everybody jump,
And the man says jump,
Everybody jump.
I ain't gonna jump.
Chorus:
It's a free country,
And that I know,
And I don't mean to jump
Every time I'm told.
When the man is wrong,
I don't go along,
And I ain't gonna jump, not me.
Verse ad lib:
The man says Go…
The answer is no.
(Chorus)
The man says Kill…
I don't think I will.
(Chorus)
The man says Die…
But I don't know why.
(Chorus)
The man says Jump…
I ain't gonna jump.
Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music
to this song appears:
---- The Muse of Parker Street
Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Broadside No. 68 (March 1968)
---- Broadside, Vol. III (New York: Broadside Magazine, 1970),
p. 81
Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- [none]