There’s Gold in them thar hills
A goldrush is upon us –
all the Wall Street Jack & Jills
are screaming of their mountain debts:
‘There’s gold in them thar hills!’
‘The Treasury Department
is a-buyin up bad loans;
those rattles in the closet
are now money and not bones!’
‘Pack your mules with shovels
and some powder for the fleas –
the first to scale the Mortgage Range
will claim the [...]
Things that go bump in my wallet
Where does money come from –
do you grow it in a field,
sowing dimes and nickels
for a million-dollar yield?
Maybe storks do bring it
as they do our babies sweet,
or maybe it is spun out
from good fairies by the sheet.
Leprechauns have pots of gold
and pirates raid for loot,
mermaids have their ropes of pearls,
for gemstones dragons root.
I don’t know [...]
Money and Red Bull
Poverty is relative –
unless you’re living in it.
Then you’d trade for anything
in a New York minute.
Wealth does not bring happiness
or so the sages say;
but give me wealthy misery
at any time of day!
God throws money out his door
to land on Earth wherever;
those who stumble over it
think of themselves as clever.
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Caffeine drinks that give you wings
are not [...]
Money and Preachers
I never met a preacher
who had money in the bank
who didn’t want a little more
for topping off his tank.
Money and religion
never mix and never should.
The rich may act quite holy
but their heart is made of wood.
Wealth is kinda funny,
everybody wants their share;
but it’s like old love and war
where everything is fair.
The world is ruled by [...]
