Lyrics to
I Don’t Want Your Money

This version of I Don’T Want Your Money was released by Chicago in 1971.

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I don’t want your money
It don’t mean a thing
I don’t need no fancy clothes
Or a diamond ring
I don’t have to ride in style
In your limousine
I don’t want no trouble
Tax or Uncle Sam
All I want is you
I want to be your natural man
I don’t need your prestige
‘Cause I got my pride
I don’t want your social standing
I’d rather stand outside
I don’t have no time to worry
‘Bout your greedy jive
I don’t want your money
I don’t like that game
All I want is you
I want to be your natural man.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I Don’T Want Your Money, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Chicago. Some of the lyrics to I Don’T Want Your Money have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chicago and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I Don’T Want Your Money if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Don’T Want Your Money" means the words set to the music of I Don’T Want Your Money, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Don’T Want Your Money and the lyrics to I Don’T Want Your Money are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Don’T Want Your Money, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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