Kander & Ebb: Money makes the world go 'round, from CABARET
Kurt Weill: The Ballad of Immoral Earnings, from THREEPENNY OPERA (it's a
duet for tenor/baritone and soprano, but may be adaptable for solo
singer)
Luciano Berio: Money, penny come to me - #6 of his CRIES OF LONDON
Sir Arthur Bliss: Worry about money - #1 of his ANGELS OF THE MIND
G.P. Telemann: Geld; Heirat
Bock & Harnick: If I were a rich man, from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
H. Purcell: Love is now become a trade
C. Gounod: Ni l'or ni la grandeur
Schubert: Der Schatzgraeber, D.256
Hans Eisler: Ballade von der Billigung der Welt (which includes the line:
Ich selbst versteh nichts von Oekonomie - "I understand nothing about
economics")
Hans Eisler: Als ich dich gebar, schrie'n deine Broeder schon - from his
VIER WIEGENLIEDER FUER ARBEITERMUETTER
J. Brahms: Guter Rat, op. 75 #2
Gorney & Harburg: Brother, can you spare a dime?
Bock & Harnick: Bonds - from THE ROTHSCHILDS
Looking a bit farther afield to comic and folk songs:
Monty Python (Eric Idle & John Gould): Money Song
Monty Python (Eric Idle & John du Prez): Accountancy Shanty
Walter Gilbert (of Hexagon): Alan Greenspan Song
The Beatles (George Harrison): The Taxman
Tom Glazer: A dollar ain't a dollar anymore
Walter Cliff aka Walter Gourlay: I wanna marry a Trotskyite
Bob Russell & Carl Sigman: Money in the pocket
Tom Glazer: When the country is broke
(These two are very similar, lyric-wise)
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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Hillaire Belloc's flawed but insightful essay on Islam:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/HERESY4.TXT
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsyl., 1759
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