Key: C major•
Verse 1
become the idle rich,
You'll never know just who is who
D
G
or who is which.
Won't it be rich
F
D
Becomes a Rockefeller -tive
G
D
and times no longer itch?
D
A
D
an d plastic teeth,
Em
G
Em
How will we determine who's
A
D
who underneath?
And when all your neighbors
G
C
are upper class,
F
D
You won't know your Georges
E
Em
G
from your As tor s.
The day we drink that drinky up
D
C
But with the little pinky up
C
Dbdim
Dm
The idle poor become the
C
G
C
D
Am
A
idle rich
D
Am
A
D
When a rich man doesn't want to work
He's a bon vivant, yes, he's a bon vivant
G
F#
F
But when a poor man doesn't want to work
E
A
D
G
He's a loafer, he's a lounger,
F#m
D
Em
he's a lazy good -for -nothin',
D
G
D
A
D
he's a jerk.
When a rich man loses on a horse,
isn't he the sport, ho -ho,
isn't he the sport?
G
F#
F
E
But when a poor man loses on a horse,
A
D
G
he's a gambler, he's a spender,
C
A
he's a lowlife,
D
Em
A
D
Bm
Abdim
he's a raisin for divorce.
Db
F#m
D
Abm
When a rich man chases after dames,
F#m
D
Abdim
oh yes, a man about town.
Db
A
F#m
Bm
But when a poor man chases after dames,
E
A
Em
he's a bounder, he's a rounder,
Interlude 1
A
Ebdim
Dm
G
C
Am
Dm
F
C
Am
Dm
G
When
Verse 2
the idle rich
You'll never know just who is who
G
D
or who is which
F
D
or the Slav in you
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F
For when you're on Park Avenue,
C
G
D
G
Cornelius and Mike Look -a
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Am
Dm
G
C
Am
Dm
-like.
A
D
rich Tweedledee,
Em
A
D
This discrimination will no longer be.
G
C
and off of the nut,
F
B
You won't know your banker
E
G
from your butler.
Interlude 2
Yeah, Fedian
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Edim
Gm
D
Gm
C
F
C
Gm
C
G
F
C
Gm
C
Edim
Gm
Bb
Gm
C
F
C
Gm
C
G
F
C
Edim
C
G
F
C
Verse 3
With just a few annuities
G
D
Bm
In cloaks from Abercrombie Fitch
G
C
When the
idle poor
F
G
become the idle rich!
Outro 1
C
Gm
C
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