THE GOLD DIGGERS’ SONG (We’re in the Money) By Al Dubin

Gone are my blues,

And gone are my tears;

I’ve got good news

To shout in your ears.

The silver dollar has returned to the fold,

With silver you can turn your dreams to gold.

We’re in the money,

We’re in the money;

We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!

We’re in the money,

The skies are sunny;

Old man Depression,

You are through, you done us wrong!

We never see a headline

‘Bout a breadline, today,

And when we see the landlord,

We can look that guy

Right in the eye.

We’re in the money,

Come on, my honey,

Let’s spend it, lend it, send it

Rolling along!

From “Reading Lyrics,” edited by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Pantheon: 706 pp., $39.50)