M-O-N-E-Y
As recorded by Gordon Syrett on the various-artists album "Many a Good Horseman: Traditional Music Making from Mid-Suffolk" (2009)
It's money that makes some air to go,
It's a saying old but true,
That when you've got the ready cash
Your friends will stick like glue.
But when your purse is empty
Those friends you thought sincere
Will proudly turn upon their heels,
And quickly disappear.
It is then that you'll murmur to yourself,
"I must have been a fool
To let those artful fellows
Make me their ready tool."
But if fortune smiles on me again,
You bet I will reply,
And the only one that I will trust
Is my m-o-n-e-y.
CHORUS:
M-o-n-e-y.
That is the stuff to bring you joy.
When you've got the L.S.D.
Everybody seems so free.
Folks you've never seen before
Flock around you by the score.
Girls to win your love will try,
For your m-o-n-e-y.
Now the parson preaches in the church,
But he does not do it free.
The lawyer too will give advice,
But he always wants his fee.
The butcher, too, will smell a rat
If funds are getting low,
And if you want your meat on credit
He'll quickly tell you no.
Your wife will be cold and distant.
To please her you may try.
But she won't be easy till she gets
Your m-o-n-e-y.
Collected 1982 from Gordon Syrett, at Mendlesham Green, Suffolk.
MIDI file: MONEY.MID
Timebase: 480
Tempo: 160 (375000 microsec/crotchet)
Key: G
TimeSig: 4/4 48 8
Name: M-O-N-E-Y
Text: S:Gordon Syrett
Tempo: 100 (600000 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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ABC format:
X: 1
T:M-O-N-E-Y
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Gordon Syrett
A:Suffolk
N:Recorded at Mendlesham Green 1982
D:Many a Good Horseman VTVS01/0
K:G
Q:200
D2|
BBB2 A2G2|GGF4 DD|cc3 d2A2|B6 B2|
B2c2 B2A2|GG2E4 D|B2c2 B2A2|G6 D2|
B2B2 A2G2|G2F4 D2|c2c2 d2A2|B6 B2|
B2c2 B2A2|G2G2 E2D2|B2c2 B2A2|G6 D2|
B2BB A2G2|GGF4 D2|c2c2 d2A2|B6 B2|
B2c2 B2A2|GG2E4 z|B2c2 B2A2|G6 DD|
B2B2 A2G2|GGF4 D2|c2c2 d2A2|B6 BB|
B2c2 B2A2|GG2E3DD|B2c2 B2A2|G6 z2||
M:6/8
Q:150
B2D E2D|B3-B3|BcB E2B A2^G|A4z2 |
c2A F2D|cA2 F3|GGG AA2|B2e d3|
B2G DG2|B2G D3|Bd2 c2B|AA2 E3|
c2A FD2|cA2 F3|d2d ed2|cA2 G3||
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