God rest ye merry businessmen,
Start markups on your trash!
Remember that this holiday
Is when you rake in cash!
It saves you from those creditors
You owe from that last crash…
Oh, tidings of bottom-lines grown fat, ever so fat!
Oh, tidings of bottom-lines grown fat!
From commerce wonks in Washington
There comes this press release:
“Just keep the boobs in spending-mode
So cash flow doesn’t cease!
A Christmas without splurging means
That profits won’t increase…”
Oh, tidings of credit lines gone wild, ever so wild!
Oh, tidings of credit lines gone wild!
The euro’s going down the tubes;
The E.U. too, en masse—
We owe some fifteen trillion bucks
That we don’t have, alas!
If China calls our paper debt,
We might as well take gas…
Oh, tidings of bankruptcy and loss, ever such loss!
Oh, tidings of bankruptcy and loss!
That’s why we need this frenzied rush
Of buying gone berserk!
At Christmas you must drum into
The head of every jerk
That he should spend and spend and spend
To keep us all in work…
Oh, tidings of avarice unrestrained, unrestrained!
Oh, tidings of avarice unrestrained!
