It's Money that Matters

Of all of the people that I used to know
Most never adjusted to the great big world
I see them lurking in book stores
Working for the Public Radio
Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
Moving careful and slow

     It's money that matters
     Hear what I say
     It's money that matters
     In the USA

All of these people are much brighter than I
In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
But they barely survive
They eke out a living and they barely survive

When I was a young boy, maybe thirteen
I took a hard look around me and asked what does it mean?
So I talked to my father, and he didn't know
And I talked to my friend and he didn't know
And I talked to my brother and he didn't know
And I talked to everybody that I knew

     It's money that matters
     Now you know that it's true
     It's money that matters
     Whatever you do

Then I talked to a man lived up on the county line
I was washing his car with a friend of mine
He was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit
I said "You look kind of funny"
He said "I know that I do

"But I got a great big house on the hill here
And a great big blonde wife inside it
And a great big pool in my backyard 
And another great big pool beside it

     "Sonny, it's money that matters 
     Hear what I say
     It's money that matters in the USA
     It's money that matters
     Now you know that it's true
     It's money that matters whatever you do"

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