Let's Put An End To Profiteering Days 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 2 May 2012
2012

I'd like to find that germ
that insect, or that worm,
that gave the itch
to all those high rent grabbers,
those robbers, they will not arbitrate,
say: "Pay or there's the gate,"
I've found a way to curb
those green back snatchers
those lobsters
with my hypnotizing glance
I'll put then in a trance
and when they wake
they'll surely have the shivers,
rent gougers,
they'll never take a chance
to profiteer and prance
While we who carry all the burden suffer,
we suffer

Oh profiteering days, profiteering days
Let us miss you for a while
since you came around
you've ravaged ev'ry town
please vacate and don't be hanging round.
Take the landlords too
chain them in a zoo,
they've had freedom long enough, I'm sure,
my mother and pa
consulted the law
Let's put an end to profiteering days.

Profiteering days, profiteering days
Let us miss you for a while
since you came around
you've ravaged ev'ry town
please vacate and don't be hanging round.
Take the landlords too
chain them in a zoo,
they've had freedom long enough, I'm sure,
my mother and pa
consulted the law
Let's put an end to profiteering days.

The butchers are the next
it seems they're always vexed
they always meet you
with those awful prices, some prices,
your bank roll they'll reduce
they'll tell you: "What's the use,"
to kick when you can never beat my prices,
his prices,
they'll keep you in a hole
until they get your soul
then comes the grocer
with his pick and shovel
and hobble, the tailor takes a peep says:
"I must sew and reap,"
then shoe comes long and says:
"Let's walk together,

go hither you profiteering days,
profiteering days
Let us miss you for a while
since you came around
you've ravaged ev'ry town
please vacate and don't be hanging round.
Take the landlords too
chain them in a zoo,
they've had freedom long enough, I'm sure,
my mother and pa
consulted the law
Let's put an end to profiteering days.

Profiteering days, profiteering days
Let us miss you for a while
since you came around
you've ravaged ev'ry town
please vacate and don't be hanging round.
Take the landlords too
chain them in a zoo,
they've had freedom long enough, I'm sure,
my mother and pa
consulted the law
Let's put an end to profiteering days.

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Let's Put An End To Profiteering Days 1920
by Christian Marcus
© MCMXX by Christian Marcus
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 2 May 2012 at 17.55
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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