Head, Michael - Money, O! (G minor)

Money, O!

Vocal Range: g/bb-d
The edition is part of the ABRSM singing syllabus (grade 8).

Instrumentation: Voice And Piano
Binding: Saddle stitching
Language: English
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
ISMN: M-060-06060-1
ISBN: 979-0-060-06060-1

Text:

When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor;
For many a false man as a friend
Came knocking all day at my door.

Then felt I like a child that holds
A trumpet that he must not blow
Because a man is dead; I dared
Not speak to let this false world know.

Much have I thought of life, and seen
How poor men's hearts are ever light;
And how their wives do hum like bees
About their work from morn till night.

So, when I hear these poor ones laugh,
And see the rich ones coldly frown 
Poor men, think I, need not go up
So much as rich men should come down.

When I had money, money, O!
My many friends proved all untrue;
But now I have no money, O!
My friends are real, though very few.