Ancestors

Toot

Written by Paul Chambers on 2025-02-01 at 03:25

Question: And if one little mouse can set them all awry, Why not you and I?

🎶 A little mouse got into the wires

At the central clearing house in Buenos Aires.

One little mouse short circuited the computers,

Says a press dispatch from Reuters.

Hooray for the little mouse

That mucked1 up the clearing house,

And threw the Stock Exchange in a spin

And made the bankers cry.

So much for the electronic brains,

That run the world of banks and aeroplanes,

And if one little mouse can set them all awry,

Why not you and I?

Spoken:

Then there was another item in the papers

About a bank's computers

That messed up the accounts

So the farmer's checks all bounced,

So his business fell apart

And it nearly broke his heart.

So he took the bank to court,

And they gave him an award

Of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The bank appealed and on due consideration

The higher court doubled the compensation.

So if a computer does it to you,

You can sue, or chew the wires through.

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Descendants

Written by Paul Chambers on 2025-02-01 at 03:27

2/ The Money Crop ~ Malvina Reynolds

🎶 Well, money has its own way,

And money has to grow.

It grows on human blood and bone,

As any child would know.

It's iron stuff and paper stuff

With no life of its own,

And so it takes its growing sap

From human blood and bone.

And many a child goes hungering

Because the wage is low,

And men die on the battlefield

To make the money grow.

And those that take the money crop

Are avid without end,

They plant it in the tenements

To make it grow again.

The little that they leave for us,

It cannot be a seed.

We spend it for the shoddy clothes

And every daily need.

We spend it in a minute,

In an hour it is gone,

To find its way to grow again

On human blood and bone,

Blood and bone.

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