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