Name a song in which a financial transaction takes place.

[slj0101]

example:

The Who's "Magic Bus" (Live @ Leeds version): the driver offers to sell the Magic Bus for 100 English Pounds.

[Rambis]

1. Money PF and I don't want to hear it either (nm)

x

[taterguy]

2. I'm waiting for the man

26 dollars in my hand . . .

[rug]

3. Lady Marmalade

[Arugula Latte]

4. Take the Money and Run

Ooooh! It also features the phrase "C'mon" -- so that qualifies it for the other song thread. :woohoo:

On edit: on the other hand, maybe it's actually "Go on, take the money and run..." I'm too lazy to Google it. :bored:

[kwassa]

5. Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles

[terrya]

6. "Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits

[Tikki]

7. "For the Love of Money"......O'Jays.

and this one " Real Mother For Ya".....Johnny "Guitar" Watson.

"Wanna buy a new car
But the price ain't right
Be a damn site cheaper (yes it would)
Start riding a bike...

Lord , its a real mother for ya (yeah)
make you wanna run for cover (yes it will)
And if you look you will discover (yeah)
Lord, its a real mother for ya yeah...

Gimme 3 gallons of low lead
and two hot dogs and a strawberry soda.....




Tikki
edit: soda, not shake

[ghostsofgiants]

8. The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come For Free" album is based around losing $1000. Does that count?

[taterguy]

9. 1,000 Dollar Wedding

[tigereye]

10. I'm waiting for my man

26 dollars in my hand.


My band used to play that song and at the time, I had no idea what it was really about. (yes, I was that naive)

[DS1]

11. Hit the Hooker - Eazy E

[cwydro]

12. Private Dancer

[Dora]

13. "When I Win the Lottery" Camper van Beethoven

[KamaAina]

14. "Elvira", Oak Ridge Boys

She's gonna jump and holla
'Cause I've saved up my last two dollars
We're gonna search and find that preacher man...

edit: goona?! :eyes:

[trof]

15. A dollar down and a dollar a week - Woody Guthrie

A friend of mine bought an automobile
At a dollar down and a dollar a week.
Every time he turned the wheel,
It was a dollar down and a dollar a week.

He went riding down the road,
Pinched this girl upon her cheek.
Speed cop took him to the judge,
He got a dollar down and a dollar a week.

Sixty days he laid in jail,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week,
Another man was a lovin' his gal,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week.

When he got out he shot the man,
And laid him in the graveyard six feet deep.
And when he bought the graveyard spot,
it was a dollar down and a dollar a week.

[Joe Fields]

16. Raised On Robbery, by Joni Mitchell

"A little money ridin' on the Maple Leafs..."

"He bought a '57 Biscayne and put it in a ditch..."

[last_texas_dem]

17. "Money" by the Lovin' Spoonful

Its lyrics are essentially a series of financial transactions!

[idgiehkt]

18. Does theft count? Cause he took my twenty dollar bill,

and he vanished in the air...

Grateful Dead, Friend of the Devil

[slj0101]

20. Yep, it's a financial transaction, so to speak...

[HuskerDU]

19. 'Too Much Junkie Business' by Johnny Thunders

and the Heartbreakers (Walter Lure changed the lyrics of Chuck Berry's 'Too Much Monkey Business')


'Well you go down to the corner to see what you can cop
You buy some for your sister but you take yours off the top'

How did a good midwestern boy like myself get into NYC junkie rock?!?

[slj0101]

21. "Just Got Paid." ZZ Top.

[Xithras]

22. If I had a million dollars - The Barenaked Ladies

I've always loved that song...especially done live.

[malta blue]

23. Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens. eom

[BlueJazz]

24. Love for Sale