Intro: C C/G
C
Up on the East side of Manhattan,
F C
They’re still dancing with the stars.
F C
While over in sub prime city,
G
It’s getting angry in the local bars
F C
Watching the news only gives me the blues
G Am
There’s too much goin’ wrong.
F C
It takes the likes of me to hit the reboot key
G C
and write a high speed drinking song.
C
Millionaires losing everything.
F C
Hey, welcome to the other side of life!
F C
There goes the yacht, there goes the Rolls,
D G
But, you get to keep your wife!
F C
And don’t forget the automakers
G Am
swimming up stream like a trout.
F
They let the shi* hit the fan
C
and then they made a plan
G C
We’ve got a lot to drink about.
F
It’s the price of oil,
C
the war of the spoils.
G Am
Where’s your bucket for the big bailout?
F C
Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan,
G C
We’ve got a lot to drink about.
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C
Now, Madoff made off with all the money.
F C
Now his clients are down to skunk weed.
F C
Repeat after me, it’s so easy to see
G
We’re only talking simple greed.
F C
And those Somalian pirates are countin’ all the gold.
G Am
While Bush and Cheney ain’t around
F C
and all the good lookers seem to be Czech hookers
G C
from Key West to London town.
F
It’s the price of oil,
C
the war of the spoils.
G Am
Where’s your bucket for the big bailout?
F C
Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan,
G C
We’ve got a lot to drink about.
F C G C F C G C
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So pour me some Tennessee whiskey,
A# Bb F
pour me a fine Jamaican rum.
A# Bb F
That loud mouth soup gets me kind of looped
D G
Tequila, of course I’ll have some!
C
Now the family devalues
F C
and little children count their net worth
F C
and the truth wherever it’s hidin’,
G
can’t be found on Google Earth.
F C
Citibank’s buying jets with our money.
G Am
I wanna flog ‘em with a buggy whip.
F C
I hope Obama and Joe won’t let the volcano blow
G C
and patch the hole in our sinkin’ ship.
F
It’s the price of oil,
C
the war of the spoils.
G Am
Where’s your bucket for the big bailout?
F C
Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan,
G C
We’ve got a lot to drink about.
F C
Recession, Depression, the question good God
G Am
CNN keeps bummin’ me out.
F C
I can’t take another dooms day moment.
G
We got a lot to drink, a lot to think,
C
a lot to drink about.