It's Money That Matters Songtext / Lyric

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 U.S.A.



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, 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, he didn't know

And I talked to my friend, he didn't know

And I talked to my brother, 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, "That's looks kind of funny"

He said, "I know it does too"



"But I got a great big house on the hill here

Great big blonde wife inside it

Great big pool in my backyard

Another great big pool beside it



Sonny, it's money that matters

Hear what I say

It's money that matters

In the U.S.A."

It's money that matters

Now you know that it's true

It's money that matters

Whatever you do