most never adjusted to the great big world.
I see them lurking in bookstores,
working for the public radio,
carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
movin' careful and slow.


Chorus)
 It's money that matters
 Hear what I say
 It's money that matters
 In the USA

 All 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 didn't know
 And I talked to my friend and he didn't know
 And I talked to my brother and he didn't know
 And I talked to everybody that I knew

 (Chorus)
 It's money that matters
 Now you know that it's 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, hear what I say
 It's money that matters in the USA
 It's money that matters
 Now you know that it's true
 It's money that matters whatever you do