MONEY (THAT'S WHAT I WANT) (mentioned earlier) written by Jamie Bradford and Berry Gordy Jnr, and originally recorded by Barrett Strong on the Anna label (1960)- one of the very first issues from what became Tamla Motown.

YOUR CASH AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT TRASH (also mentioned earlier) written by
Jesse Stone (aka Charles Calhoun) and originally recorded by The Clovers (1954) on Atlantic.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned MONEY'S GETTING CHEAPER (aka TIMES ARE GETTING TOUGHER THAN TOUGH):-

Prices getting steeper, money's getting cheaper,
Found myself a woman and I just couldn't keep her.
Times are getting tougher than tough,
Things getting rougher than rough,
Make a bit of money but I just keep spending the stuff.

Went the butcher, asked the butcher for a pound,
Couldn't afford a pork chop when I laid my money down.
(Times etc)

Politicians arguing about the price of meat,
Why don't they cut the prices and let the people eat.
(Times etc)

I can't afford to live, I guess I'll have to try,
Undertakers got a union and it costs too much to die.
(Times etc)


First recording, I think, by Jimmy Witherspoon in 1947, with Jay NcShann band. Jimmy wrote it I think (and recorded it several times over the years), but sometimes credited to "Boyd".

Last Saturday I was singing the song a gig, and added:-

The Dow Jones and FTSE 100 I just don't understand,
Soon I'll be paying my Council Tax in.... Iceland.
(Times etc)