The Money Crop
Malvina Reynolds
Well money has it's own way
cnd money has to grow
It grows on human blood and bone
cs any child would know
It's iron stuff and paper stuff
With no life of it's own
cnd so it takes it's growing sap
From human blood and bone
(Blood and bone)
cnd many a child goes hungering
Because the wage is low
cnd folks die on the battle field
To make the money grow
cnd those who take the money crop
cre avid without end
They plant it in the tenements
To make it grow again
The little that they leave for us
It can not be a seed
We spend it on the shoddy clothes
cnd every daily need
We spend it in a minute
In an hour it is gone
To find its way to grow again
On human blood and bone
(Blood and bone)