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Alexander Hamilton's image adorns the new $10 bill |
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Goodbye sawbuck my old friend ...
They're changing currency again ...
Because fake bills are slowly creeping ...
Into our econ-circulation thing.
And the Secret ... Service ... does complain
They can't contain ..
The mounds of phony money.
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In restless dreams I see his face ...
But poor Alex seems out of place ...
He was the man who made the Treasury
Now he looks like a Hallmark pixie
And the background ... is just ... too darn pink
I think it stinks
I want the old green money.
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And in the naked light you'll see ..
This bill's become all shimmery ...
It's like some jester at a royal dance
Or the tissue notes used in Japan and France
And like Jackson, this thing is a mockery ..
Of what bills should be ...
It looks like funny money.
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And they did this once before ...
And they say they'll do some more ...
Every year there's a bill changing
More and more it will be confusing
And the day will come when the people just can't tell ...
Oh what the hell.
We won't know what ... is money.
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Allen Wastler, a frustrated poetry major, is Managing Editor of CNNMoney.com and appears on CNN's "In the Money." He can be emailed at wastlerswanderings@cnn.com.
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