Arlo Guthrie Im Changing My Name To Chrysler Lyrics

Im Changing My Name To Chrysler Lyrics

Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight

And the dollar is in sorry
shape tonight

What the dollar used to get us

Now won't buy a head
of lettuce

No the economic forecast isn't right

But amidst the
clouds I spot a shining ray



I can even glimpse a new and better
way

And I've demised a plan of action

Worked it down to the last
fraction

And I'm going into action here today



CHORUS:

I am changing my name to Chrysler

I am going down to Washington
D.C.

I will tell some power broker

What they did for Iacocca

Will be perfectly acceptable to me

I am changing my name to
Chrysler

I am headed for that great receiving line

So when they
hand a million grand out

I'll be standing with my hand out

Yes sire
I'll get mine



When my creditors are screaming for their dough

I'll be proud to tell them all where they can all go

They won't have
to scream and holler

They'll be paid to the last dollar

Where the
endless streams of money seem to flow

I'll be glad to tell them what they
can do

It's a matter of a simple form or two

It's not just
renumeration it's a liberal education

Ain't you kind of glad that I'm in
debt to you



CHORUS



Since the first amphibians crawled
out of the slime

We've been struggling in an unrelenting climb

We
were hardly up and walking before money started talking

And it's sad that
failure is an awful crime

Well it's been that way for a millenium or
two

But now it seems that there's a different point of view

If
you're a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic

Down to congress
there's a safety net for you



CHORUS