WHEN IT'S ALL GOIN' OUT AND NOTHIN' COMIN' IN

Money is de root of evil,
No matter where you happen to go,
But nobody has any objections
To de root; now ain't dat so?

You know how it is wid money,
How it makes you feel at ease,
Things look bright all around
An' yo' friends am thick as bees.

But when yo' money is runnin' low,
An' you're clingin' to a solitary dime,
Yo' creditors are num'rous and yo' friends are few,
Oh, dat am de awful time.

CHORUS
Dat am de time, oh, dat am de time.
When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in
Dat am de time when de troubles begin;
Money's gittin' low, People say "I told you so;"
And you can't borrow a penny from any of yo' kin,
An' it's all goin' out an' nothin' comin' in.


Had my share of dis world's trials,
Nobody knows how hard I have tried;
To keep my little boat from sinkin'
An' to battle wid de tide.

You know when you got yo' money,
You can easy keep afloat;
De stream is smooth, and all yo' friends
Try to help you to row yo' boat.

But when yo' money is runnin' low,
And de stream gits rough an' things look mighty blue,
Yo' look around for help an' find each of yo' friends
Is paddlin' his own canoe.   
(CHORUS)

Words and Music by Williams & Walker, ©1902.
Words Revised by James Weldon Johnson

Reprinted with 1996 copyright by American Musicological Society
ISBN 0-89579-342-3
Editor: Thomas L. Riis
Editor In Chief, MUSA: Richard Crawford

included in MUSA's Volume 5:
"The Music and Scripts Of 'In Dahomey' "

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