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Money Matters

• Leon Rosselson,
• Harrys Gone Fishing,
• Fuse Records (CFCD 007), 1999

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• Little Alexander Cecil,
• Lord Landanders son and heir,
• Was only seven years of age
• When he became a millionaire.
• Put his tooth under his pillow
• Wasnt he a lucky fellow?

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• Money rises from the sewers
• Causes all the ills it cures.
• Poisons rivers, topples trees,
• Money is its own disease.
• Blessed slime and holy gutter,
• Turning toil to bread and butter,
• Shirts and shoes to rags and tatters.
• Money matters!

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• Paolo worked his plot of land
• To keep his wife and children fed.
• Until the men with guns came knocking,
• Paolo took the hint and fled.
• Now his kids are undernourished
• And money grows where food once flourished.

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• Like flies on feces, money breeds
• Propagating sterile seeds.
• Money burns and rapes and loots
• Tearing lives up by the roots.
• Sucks the sap from our desires,
• Honors hucksters, creeps and liars,
• Turns fools to wise, and wise to fools,
• Money rules!

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• Artist, anarchist and joker,
• Piermans only thought it smart
• To lay his wealth of turds in cans
• To show his scorn for bourgeois art.
• Now his turds are in demand
• And each can sells for twenty grand.

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• Nothing can escape its clutches
• Putrifying all it touches
• Clogging fur and tarring feather
• Unpredictable as weather.
• Hard hearts of a world thats hollow,
• Money calls and many follow,
• Happiness the promised prize.
• Money lies!

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• Those who bought him for adoption
• Hatched a scheme they thought was clever
• Kill the boy and cut him open.
• Sold his kidneys, heart and liver
• Healthy organs fetch a packet
• When it is a sellers market.

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• Shacks of cardboard, shacks of tin,
• Rubbish dumps to scavage in,
• Eyes accusing, bellies empty
• Strangers to the world of plenty.
• Money will not be controlled
• What can be so, will be sold
• Let the future pay the bills.
• Money kills!

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• Could we make a world without it?
• Dont know how wed go about it,
• But tell me now if money were
• Wasting the earth.

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And on, and on, and on.