Come inland and make your house go,
Fools done upset the Old Man River
Made him carry slave ships
Now his belly full and he
So I'm throwin' rope that
Tell your crew use the H2 in
You can laugh and take it as
But it don't rain all full week
And it's about to get real wild in the half
Heads is acting wild, sipping poor,
Competing with the next man
for higher playing rank (right)
See I ain't got time try to be Big Hank
I need a twenty year water tank
'Cause while these knuckleheads is out
The sun is sitting in the treetops
And as the flames from the blaze
They say, "Don't drink the water,
Now all of California is drinking it
Way up north and down south is
drinking it (New World Water)
Used to have minerals and zinc
Now they say it got lead and stink in it
Fluorocarbons and monoxide
Push the water table lopside
Used to be free now it cost
'Cause oil tankers spill they load
as they roam cross the sea
Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe
and clean with it (that's right)
When it's hot, summertime you fiend
You gotta put it in the iron you steaming
It's what they dress wounds and treat
diseases with (shout it out)
black and white got need for it (that's right)
And everybody in the world can agree
Consumption promotes health and
Go too long without it on this earth and you
leaving it (shout it out)
Americans wasting it on some
Another nations be desperately
seeking it (let 'em know)
Bacteria washing up on they
Don't drink the water, son,
they can't wash they feet with it (let 'em know)
Young babies in perpetual neediness
Epidemics hopping up off the petri
Control centers try to play
all secretive (say word?)
To avoid public panic and
freakiness (let 'em know)
'Cause foreign- based companies
The type of cats who pollute
sell it for a dollar twenty- five
Now the world is drinking it
and baby girl is drinking it (New World)
Up north and down south is drinking
You should just have to go to your sink
The cash registers is going "cha- chink" for it
Fluorocarbons and monoxide
Got the fish looking cockeyed
Used to be free now it cost you a fee
'Cause it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting that
Yeah, it's all about getting
Said, it's all about getting that cash
Johny Cash (money) Roseanne Cash (money)