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Artist: Malvina Reynolds
Canonical path: /malvina-reynolds/the-man-says-jump
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Man Says Jump
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The Man Says Jump
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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.
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Malvina Reynolds performs "The Man Says Jump", and this lyric page sits inside the Malvina Reynolds catalog on LyroVerse.
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