of all of the people that i used to know most never adjusted to the great big world i see them lurking in book stores working for the public radio carrying their babies around in a sack on their back moving careful and slow it's money that matters hear what I say it's money that matters in the usa lll of these people are much brighter than i in any fair system they would flourish and thrive but they barely survive they eke out a living and they barely survive when i was a young boy maybe thirteen i took a hard look around me and asked what does it mean? so i talked to my father and he didnt know and i talked to my friend and he didnt know and i talked to my brother and he didnt know and i talked to everybody that i knew it's money that matters now you know that its true it's money that matters whatever you do then i talked to a man lived up on the county line i was washing his car with a friend of mine he was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit i said you look kind of funny he said i know that I do but i got a great big house on the hill here and a great big blonde wife inside it and a great big pool in my backyard and another great big pool beside it sonny it`s money that matters
записано в 1987-`88 автор: randy newman продюсер: mark knopfler исполняют: randy newman - vocals, piano, background vocals guy fletcher - synclavier mark knopfler - guitar, background vocals dana drum - background vocals bob hilburn, jr. - background vocals adrienne howell - background vocals nicole jones - background vocals jesse kaner - background vocals jeff lynne - background vocals kevin maloney - background vocals deborah neal - background vocals jeannie novak - background vocals tom petty - background vocals twila rice - background vocals karen vrkoelen - background vocals frank wolf - background vocals впервые издано на: land of dreams (27 сент 1988, usa)