Poverty, baby it's on my mind,
Can't get head above the water, hope I don't turn to crime.
And what do you do when the whole nation is depressed?
Take a Federal Reserve Bank loan with double-trouble interest!

Sometimes I feel like printing up some cash,
But they'll lock you up real quick, and whip you with a lash.
Woodrow Wilson warned of them, we've got ourselves a mess,
Private bankers print our money on their private printing press.

It ain't funny, we got no money, listen honey...

Poverty, baby (etc. - repeat 1st verse)

Sometimes it seems there ain't nothing you can get,
'Less you purchase it with credit and put yourself in debt,
The men who make the loans take the printer off the shelf,
And they print a trillion dollars and they give it to themselves!

It ain't funny, we got no money, listen honey...

Poverty, baby it's on my mind,
Can't get head above the water, hope I don't have to turn to crime,
And what do you do when the whole nation is depressed?
Take a Federal Reserve Bank loan with double-trouble interest!

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