Jim Garland (April 8, 1905 – September 6, 1978) was a songwriter from the coal mining country of eastern Kentucky, where he was involved with the communist-led National Miners Union (NMU) during the violent labor conflicts of the early 1930s called the "Harlan County War". Garland came to New York City in 1931 with his older half-sister Aunt Molly Jackson and later followed by sister Sarah Ogan where he participated in the Greenwich Village folk music scene. Two of his best-known songs are "The Death of Harry Simms" and this one, "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister", set to the tune of the "Greenback Dollar" variant of "East Virginia". This song is about the conditions in the coal mining areas of Appalachia. Garland sang at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and can be seen in documentary film footage seated behind and to the right of Bob Dylan as Dylan performs. His sister Sarah Ogan Gunning sang there in 1964. The song was recorded by both Woody Githrie and Pete Seeger. Since it follows Guthrie's pattern of putting new topical words to a traditional tune, I thought for a long time that it was written by Woody but later found out about Jim Garland.