It's Money That Matters

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