Songs about money ($$$$$$$$$$)

Subject: RE: Songs about money ($$$$$$$$$$)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 07:03 AM

Yankee pay 5 dollars more

(available various sources but this one is from the "Half Mind Catalogue of Hash Hymns".

Me no like you Blitish sailor
Me no like you men of war
Me no like you Blitish sailor
Yankee pay 5 dollars more

Yankee call me honey baby
Blitish call me flucking whore (flucking whore)
Me no like you Blitish sailor
Yankee pay 5 dollars more

Yankee tap upon my window
Blitish break the flucking door (flucking door)
Me no like you Blitish sailor
Yankee pay 5 dollars more

Yankee bling me sweet led roses
Blitish bling me sleet fluck all (sweet fluck all)
Me no like you Blitish sailor
Yankee pay 5 dollars more

Yankee fuck me on the sofa
Blitish fuck me on the floor (on the floor)
Me no like you Blitish sailor
Yankee pay 5 dollars more

Yankee leaving on next friday
Blitish stay for evermore.
Me no like you Blitish sailor
Yankee pay 5 dollar more.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Why this did not make its way into the DT or at least the rugby monkey boy thread is beyond me.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? (C Porter
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Jan 18 - 01:46 PM

Who knew that the TV game show got its name from this song? Found at YouTube.


WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
Written by Cole Porter
As sung by Frank Sinatra [S] and Celeste Holm [H] in the film "High Society" (1956)

[S] Who wants to be a millionaire? [H] I don't.
[S] Have flashy flunkies ev'rywhere? [H] I don't.
[S] Who wants the bother of a country estate?
[H] A country estate
Is something I'd hate.
[S] Who wants to wallow in champagne? [H] I don't.
[S] Who wants a supersonic plane? [H] I don't.
[S] Who wants a private landing field too? [H] Wait. I don't.
[S] And I don't, [Both] 'cause all I want is you.

[S] Who wants to be a millionaire? [H] I don't.
[S] Who wants uranium* to spare? [H] I don't.
[S] Who wants to journey on a gigantic yacht?
[H] Do I want a yacht?
Oh, how I do not!
Who wants a fancy foreign car? [S] I don't.
[H] Who wants to tire of caviar? [S] I don't.
Who wants a marble swimming pool too? [H] I don't.
[S] And I don't, [Both] 'cause all I want is you.

[S] Who wants to be a millionaire? [H] I don't.
[S] And go to ev'ry swell affair? [H] I don't.
[S] Who wants to ride behind a liveried chauffeur?
[H] A liveried chauffeur?
Do I want? No sir!
[S] Who wants an opera box, I'll bet? [H] I don't.
And sleep through Wagner at the Met? [S] I don't.
Who wants to corner Cartier's too? [H] I don't.
[S] And I don't, [Both] 'cause all I want is you.


[* In the 1950s, uranium was a much-talked-about source of new wealth. Prospectors were allegedly combing public lands in the west with a Geiger counter, and getting rich.]

Subject: RE: Songs about money ($$$$$$$$$$)
From: Joe_F
Date: 17 Jan 18 - 06:33 PM

Empty Pockets Blues

Subject: RE: Songs about money ($$$$$$$$$$)
From: topical tom
Date: 18 Jan 18 - 01:02 PM

Has anyone mentioned "I'm Changing my Name to Chryslehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqSEL0N5-w
r"?

Subject: RE: Songs about money ($$$$$$$$$$)
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 03:17 AM

Here's a few more:

The Great Correction - Eliza Gilkeyson (?sp)

My Family Built this Town - David Olney, which tells the chilling story
   of a rich man s son who gets away with murder and says: "we had
slaves before the war, we don t need them anymore , Monet talks money
always will."

A lesser braggart Joe Walsh celebrated his wealth in Life s Been Good to Me So Far.

Anyone remember that before Don McClean became a sort of New England country squire, he sang the powerful Orphans of Wealth

There But for Fortune I think qualifies as many early Dylan - although indirectly stated, money and lack of it play a part in Hattie Brown, Masters Of War and Like a Rolling Stone.

On a lighter side, only money can buy the creature comforts dreamed about in
Wouldn't t It Be Lovely

But I think I d rather:


Imagine a world with no possessions

Subject: RE: Songs about money ($$$$$$$$$$)
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 21 Jan 18 - 03:22 AM

And, of course, I am thinking of writing a song called All the Monet in the world can't stop Autocorrect from ruining my posts.