Business
    A poem by Guillevic
    Tune by Pete Seeger©1963 Stormking Music Inc.

    Two million bushels of North African grain
    Resold to Germany for Swiss francs
    Paid for by a consortium of banks
    With a deal in futures that the Stock Exchange
    Unloads for coffee from Brazilian uplands
    Destined for Paris, Before the whole deal sinks
    The checks written in indelible inks
    Outrace Atlantic's winter hurricanes

    At last the coffee arrives, also the wheat
    Needless to say, the deal was a success
    Who can deny that all of us have gained?
    Our benefactors? Three trusts. They compete
    For honor, glory, power and of course,
    Profits, where all happiness is contained

    Notes

It comes from "Love Song of the Resistance", a poem by the Breton poet Eugene Guillevic. Translated by Walter Lowenfels and set to music by Pete Seeger it holds up well as a wry comment on what is these days called "globalisation"