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Cash is a Cruel King
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Cash is a Cruel King; Long Live the King!
anvil cpa
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Vermont singer/songwriter; transplanted from the plains of Colorado over forty-five years ago.
Singer/songwriter living in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom with strong connections to the plains of Colorado, my childhood home.
Song Info
Genre
Country • Country-Rock
Charts
Peak #56
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Dwight Lakey
Rights
Brown Barn Publishing and Dwight Lakey
Uploaded
December 04, 2010
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MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 3:00
Story behind the song
As a songwriting CPA in his 35th year of accounting--and just out of another brutal tax season--this seed thought had to sprout. A fun side note: the clanging anvil is a 200-year old fireplace tool held--with great difficulty--by two fingers and hammered with a tack hammer. My only public performance of this song was accompanied by a REAL blacksmith friend with a REAL anvil!
Lyrics
CASH IS A CRUEL KING By Dwight Lakey Intro (add clanging anvil) Verse 1 Cash is a Cruel King It's the badass baron of the debit side In the business world boxing ring It's the heavyweight champ; can't be denied Chorus Ca-ya-ya-ya-yash Is a Cruel King And th-ya-ya-ya-yat Is a damn cruel thing Verse 2 Cash is a Cruel King Deadbeat bums avoiding tax Underground econometrics spring Puts a double-load on others' backs Chorus Ca-ya-ya-ya-yash Is a Cruel King And th-ya-ya-ya-yat Is a damn cruel thing Bridge Long.....live.....the King Long.....live.....the King Verse 3 Cash is a Cruel King Ruling folks in round-a-bout careers Keeps them grabbing at a brassy ring On a carousel ride lasting forty years Chorus Ca-ya-ya-ya-yash Is a Cruel King And th-ya-ya-ya-yat Is a damn cruel thing Solo ........ Over verse ......... Chorus Ca-ya-ya-ya-yash (Louder) Is a Cruel King And th-ya-ya-ya-yat Is a damn cruel thing Outro Long.....live.....the King Long.....live.....the King (fade out clanging anvil)
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