Jerry Jeff Walker - I Makes Money (Money Don't Make Me) lyrics

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I makes money, money don't make me, that's the way I am and it's plain to see

Get right for yourself, they can't put you on a shelf

Live and let live, you know its plain enough

There ain't a dollar in the world can make me change my stuff

I met lots of men who told me when they finally make their first million

They're gonna live like kings, gonna try everything

They're gonna flatter pretty women

If they know how to do it, why not get to it, instead of waiting all your life

'Cause life is only doing, what you think is worth pursuing

Instead of waiting all the time

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If you find yourself waiting and you know you're hesitating

Get your butt off the ground

It ain't your money or your honey, and you know it's kind of funny

When its all boiled down

If you want to be the man, and you know you certainly can

Then do it, do it, do it, do it, do it

Clothes don't make the man, money won't help you stand

Any truer than you're doin'

So you'll never find the endin' of sittin' and pretending

You're gonna do it sometime

You keep knocking on wood, doing exactly what you should

Trying to save enough dimes

Build 'em up higher, so you can retire, to your castle in the blue

But you find it's all behind and it's probably slipped your mind

And you're too pooped to toot

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