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Money makes the world go around,
the world go around, the world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
it makes the world go round.

A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound,
а buck or a pound, a buck or a pound,
Is all that makes the world go around,
that clinking clanking sound,
Can make the world go round.

If you happen to be rich,
and you feel like a night's entertainment,
You can pay for a gay escapade.
If you happen to be rich,
and alone and you need a companion,
You can ring ting-a-ling for the maid.
If you happen to be rich
and you find you are left by your lover,
Though you moan and you groan quite a lot,
You can take it on the chin,
call a cab and begin
to recover on your fourteen carat yacht.

Money makes the world go around,
the world go around, the world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
of that we both are sure.
On being poor.

When you haven't any coal in the stove
and you freeze in the winter
And you curse to the wind at your fate.
When you haven't any shoes on your feet
and your coat's thin as paper
And you look thirty pounds underweight,
When you go to get a word of advice
from the fat little pastor,
he will tell you to love evermore.
But when hunger comes to rap,
rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, at the window
(Who's there?
hunger oh, hunger!)
See how love flies out the door.

For money makes the world go around,
the clinking, clanking sound of
Money, money, money, money,
Money, money, money, money,
Get a little, get a little,
Money, money, money, money,
Mark, a yen, a buck or a pound,
That clinking, clanking, clunking sound
is all that makes the world go round,
It makes the world go round.