Saturday, September 16, 2023

No Dollar Bill

 

No Dollar Bill

 

Sweet Jesus singing the blues with brown skin                         

Pale man says the white you is coming again                            

Mother Mary singing O sweet child of mine                             

Sister Rosetta Tharpe she’s an angel divine                               

 

I got rhythm I got thrill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

I gotta swallow the pill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

 

We forget what we are told not to learn

The Beatles weren’t the first records to burn

Down in Africa the pyramids stand tall

Who invented calculus I just can’t recall

 

I got rhythm I got thrill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

I gotta swallow the pill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

 

Back to the blues and the old auction block

Tell me all the people who invented rock

An ugly inconvenient truth lie to the youth

Do you know the real story about John Wilkes Booth?

 

I got rhythm I got thrill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

I gotta swallow the pill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

 

Put your hand on the television I’ll cure your acne

Send me cash and hash in order to thank me

The loneliness of a child isolated and hated

The truth of the church is something I debated

 

Rock and Roll can’t save but neither do you

Jimmy Swaggart paid his whore I know it’s true

There are miserable mysteries I can’t explain

We can go dancing romancing in the purple rain

 

I got rhythm I got thrill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

I gotta swallow the pill

Ain’t got no dollar bill

GREAT BOOK OF SONG LYRICS


GREAT BOOK OF SONG LYRICS



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