Monopoly Money

Pick your poison
Draw a card
A penny saved is a dollar spent
When living costs this much
Bow down to your founding fathers
Faceless ghosts on crumpled dollars
Even honest Abe would say
His head don't make
Much cents these days

Who wrote the rules
Who runs the game
Whose sticky fingers
Double dipping in the piggy bank
Who won before
They started playing
Like a buttered up McDuck
Diving in the deep end

Who stacked the deck
Who's got it made
Who's got a card
Hiding up their sleeve
Who plays the game
Who gets played
When it's all just made up
Monopoly money
Roll the dice

I wonder what you'll get this time
Was dear old daddy pushing pills
Or pushing up daisies on the side
If money's the root of every evil
Find the tallest spaceship steeple
If the devil's really real
You'll find him preaching to the choir

Who wrote the rules
Who runs the game
Whose sticky fingers
Double dipping in the piggy bank
Who won before
They started playing
Like a buttered up McDuck
Diving in the deep end

Who stacked the deck
Who's got it made
Who's got a card
Hiding up their sleeve
Who plays the game
Who gets played
When it's all just made up
Monopoly money
From the dirt we come
And to the dirt we all return

When the game is over
Even kings are just flesh and blood
You built your house of cards
But in the end it falls apart
I hope it's worth the time you spent
With all that made up Monopoly money

Who wrote the rules
Who runs the game
Whose sticky fingers
Double dipping in the piggy bank
Who won before
They started playing
Like a buttered up McDuck
Diving in the deep end

Who stacked the deck
Who's got it made
Who's got a card
Hiding up their sleeve
Who plays the game
Who gets played
When it's all just made up
Monopoly money