New Money

When your money

Makes you money

What's the well-to-do, to do

But buy another pony

With the interest they accrue?

While right across the bay

They're making fortunes on the go

Over there, the rich are 'riche'

And the money is 'nouveau'

Oh, the nouveau riche are reaching

For the sceptre of the kings

And some are high above us

You've got Gatsby pulling strings

Faster and faster, no slowing them down

Lucky boy, you got the hottest ticket in town

A whole new ruling party and your neighbour wears the crown

New money

Young, rich and wild

Revelled, reviled

You can't stop that

New money

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

(New money)

Watch it as it goes

(New money)

Watch it as it go-go-goes

(New, new money)

Ba-da-ba-ba-ba!

In West Egg, there's no nest egg (Oh oh oh oh)

No need to sit and brood (Oh oh oh)

On piles of cash (Oh oh)

They spend their stash (Oh oh)

At shocking magnitude!

The kind of wealth you gotta see to believe (Oh!)

A level of luxury that's hard to achieve (Oh!)

No, I don't wanna live here but I never wanna leave

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!

New money

Young, rich and wild

Revelled, reviled

Don't you want that

New money?

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

(New money)

Everything top shelf

(New, new money)

Can only top itself

(New, new, new money)

Ba-da-ba-ba ba-ba-ya!

New money!

High roller, comin' through!

(Ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Ram-bam-da-bo do-bo da-bo ow!

New money

When it's scanty

New money

Up the ante

Ooh ooh, butter me honey

Tonight, I'm on a roll

(Tonight, I'm on a roll)

(New money)

Wolfshiem!

(New money)

Hey, kitten!

Wanna blow on my dice? (Ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Are you kidding?

I wanna throw 'em! Whoo!

New money

Lucky sevens

New manna

From the Heavens

Ooh ooh butter me honey

Tonight, I'm on a roll

(New money)

Ha-ha, who's the schoolteacher?

(New manna)

This is Nick Carraway

(New money)

I see you looking at my cuff buttons

(New manna)

Finest specimens of human molars (Ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Who was that?

That's Meyer Wolfshiem

He fixed the World Series

You can meet anyone at these parties

So when do we find Gatsby? (Oh oh oh oh)

Can you point him out to me? (Oh oh oh)

I've never even met him (Oh oh oh oh)

The man's a mystery

Every night it seems his notoriety grows

I wonder if he's even at the parties he throws

I think that it's dandy (Oh-oh-oh-oh)

That he keeps a brandy handy (Oh-oh-oh-oh)

But his modus operandi? (Oh!)

No one really knows

Well, I heard Gatsby

Owns the patent

For the Model T!

I heard he's a spy!

I heard he won this place

In a horse race!

I heard he killed a man!

(Gasps!)

(Eh)

He's selling bathtub gin!

He's Prussian royalty!

Stock market?

He's flooded!

Red carpet?

Star-studded!

Black market?

Cold-blooded!

Do you wanna dance?

(Woah-Whoo!)

(My baby only wants new money)

Do you believe that about Mr Gatsby?

What?

(The kind that washes up clean)

That he killed a man!

Wouldn't he be in jail?

(My baby has a taste for new money)

Not if he didn't get caught!

(She likes her legal tender tender and mean)

Well, what kind of-! (Do-do)

Jeez! (Do-do)

What kind of a person throws large parties (Do-do do-do)

He doesn't attend? (Do-do)

A person who likes large parties (Do-do do-do)

I like large parties (Do-doowa!)

They're so intimate

At small parties there isn't any privacy

(Oh oh oh oh!)

(Oh oh oh oh!)

New money!

New money

Young, rich and wild

Revelled, reviled

Don't you want that

New money?

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

(New money)

Boats against the current

(New, new money)

Push against the tide!

(New, new money)

We ride, we ride, we ride

We ride!

(New money)

(Young, rich and wild)

Oh-oh-oh-oh! (Revelled, reviled)

(Don't you want that)

Yeah! (New money)

(Filling your pockets)

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh! (Spend it while you got it)

(Heaven knows if it'll last)

I want that

New money (Oh)

Crisp money (Oh)

Straight-from-the-mint money (Oh oh)

Fresh money (Oh)

Young money (Oh)

Push against the tide (Oh oh! Oh oh oh oh!)

Hey!

We ride, we ride! (Ride, ride!)

Don't want that

Old money

Clean money

Comes-with-strings money

Cold money

Funny money

Push against the tide

We ride, we ride, we ride! (Oh!)

Yeah-eah-eah-ah!