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Rock Lyric & Working-Class Protest 1991 Trevor Swistchew

CASH IN HAND

Song by Raw Power: Sweating for a Wage in the Yahoo Age

Welcome to the yahoo age
Sweating out ya guts for a living wage
Pay ya bills an don’t complain
We got money on the brain
We got banks and ain’t it grand
Much dough yeah cash in hand

Mr Big Shot don‘t ya understand
Open the doors we got cash in hand

(Repeat two lines above as chorus)

Money buys and ya dreams
Money don’t just talk – it screams
Folding banknotes crispy clean
Loads of dosh it’s just obscene
Add it up an’ pile it high, build a bankroll in the sky

Mr Big Shot don‘t ya understand
Open the doors we got cash in hand

(Repeat two lines above as chorus)

Lead Guitar Break follows immediately after verse 2

Sing first verse and chorus to fade out

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