What a great song! For the record, here are the lyrics, from the Website of Anne Leighton: https://anneleightonmedia.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalist-without-soul-and-empowerment.html

CAPITALIST WITHOUT A SOUL is another hummable topical song from Adirondack songwriter laureate Dan Berggren.

With images of ways people have been ripped off through the years in this song, like: “hands in your pocket, thumb on the scale,” the hook is “a capitalist without a soul.” This banjo ditty features the telling lyrics: I sold my soul guilt free” AND “Maybe there’s a small loophole for a capitalist without a soul.”


CAPITALIST WITHOUT A SOUL
(Dan Berggren)

Hand in your pocket, thumb on the scale
Make me an offer, it’s all for sale
Where conscience was, now there’s a hole
I’m a capitalist without a soul

When savings all go down the drain
When your loss becomes my gain
So what? I say. That’s my goal
I’m a capitalist without a soul

When I was born I had a soul
But I sold it for a big bankroll
Scheming all around the rules
Stealing dreams from poor fools

It’s not Robin Hood at your door
I steal from both the rich and poor
But that’s just me - playing my role
I’m a capitalist without a soul

I’ve always done just what I please
Brought the economy to its knees
When no one looked, I took control
I’m a capitalist without a soul

I sold my soul now I’m guilt free
My commerce lacks morality
Gandhi said that was a sin
But I’ll do anything to win

Laissez faire, hands off my pile
It’ll trickle down after a while
That’s if oversight takes its toll
I’m a capitalist without a soul

If my fortune’s ever lost
I wonder what a soul would cost
Maybe there’s a small loophole
For a capitalist without a soul

© 2012 Dan Berggren / Berggren Music (BMI) tune based on Cotton Eyed Joe, All Rights Reserved
Contact: Anne Leighton: 718-881-8183, LeightonMedia@aol.com, Anne@AnneLeighton.com

And here's the Dan Berggren recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1q3NY-1wQA&feature=emb_logo