Its Money That Matters

Written by: Randy Newman
From: "Land of Dreams" (1988)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
A/D       x-x-0-2-2-0
G/D       x-x-0-0-0-3
D/A       x-0-x-2-3-2
A#dim     x-1-2-0-2-0
D/F#      2-x-0-2-3-x

Intro

| D A/D | G/D D |
| D A/D | G/D D |

Verse 1

   D          A/D     G/D  D
Of all of the people
     D         A/D   G/D  D
That I used to know
     D       A/D     G/D  D
Most never adjusted
       D         A/D    G/D  D
To the great big world

Verse 2

           D          A             G   D
I see them lurking in book stores
D               A             G   D
Working for the Public Radio
               D       A          G             D
Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
       D           A     G   D
Moving careful and slow

Chorus

     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
D           A     G   D
Hear what I say
     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
       D A   G   D
In the USA

Bridge

Bm                           F#m           G
All of these people are much brighter than I
   Bm                         F#m          G
In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
                   D/A
But they barely survive
               A            A#dim     Bm    A  G  D/F#
They eke out a living, they barely survive

Link

     A                   C
When I was a young boy,
A                C
Maybe thirteen
         A                    C
I took a hard look around me
          A                   C
And asked what does it mean?

Verse 3

     D            A           G         D
So I talked to my father, and he didn't know
      D            A          G         D
And I talked to my friend and he didn't know
      D            A           G         D
And I talked to my brother and he didn't know
      D              A           G         D
And I talked to everybody that I knew

Chorus

     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
        D              A     G   D
Now you know that it's true
     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
    D        A    G   D
Whatever you do

Verse 4

       D           A/D     G/D  D
Then I talked to a man
                D      A/D     G/D  D
Lived up on the county line
      D           A/D     G/D  D
I was washing his car
       D         A/D     G/D  D
With a friend of mine

Link

         A                G C
He was a little fat guy
     A             G C
In a red jumpsuit
            A                     G C
I said "That looks kind of funny"
           A                 G C
He said "I know it does, too"

Verse 5

D                       A            G           D
 "But I got a great big house on the hill here
D                 A             G         D
  And a great big blonde wife inside it
D                 A          G         D
  And a great big pool in my backyard
D                   A      G         D
  Another great big pool beside it

Chorus

           D          A         G   D
Sonny it's money that matters,
D           A    G   D
Hear what I say
     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
       D A    G   D
In the USA
     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
        D              A    G   D
Now you know that it's true
     D          A         G   D
It's money that matters
    D        A    G   D
Whatever you do"

Outro

| D A | G D |
(repeat riff and fade)