Another piece of American Pie
It appears there are a few people around the traps with a fair bit of time on their hands.
Sure it doesn’t take much time to string together a few humorous words to make your colleagues day a little brighter, but to re-write an entire song and base it around a 1970s standard?
It appears there are a few people around the traps with a fair bit of time on their hands.
Sure it doesn’t take much time to string together a few humorous words to make your colleagues day a little brighter, but to re-write an entire song and base it around a 1970s standard?
For any Don McLean fans out there, we apologise. But we figured if Madonna can ruin the song, why can’t we? Hey, it might even turn out to be a karaoke favourite at this year’s crazier Christmas parties.
This song is supposed to be sung to the tune of American Pie.......
A long, long month ago
I can still remember how the market used to make me smile
What I'd do when I had the chance
Is get myself a cash advance
And add another tech stock to the pile.
But Alan Greenspan made me shiver
With every speech that he delivered
Bad news on the rate front
Still I'd take one more punt
I can't remember if I cried
When I heard about the CPI
I lost my fortune and my pride
The day the NASDAQ died
So bye-bye to my piece of the pie
Now I'm gettin' calls for margin
'Cause my cash account's dry
It's just two weeks from a new all-time high
And now we're right back where we were in July
We're right back where we were in July
Did you buy stocks you never heard of?
e.tech at 150 or above?
'Cos your broker told you so
Now do you believe in Home Depot?
Can bank stocks save your portfolio?
And can you teach me what's a P/E ratio?
Well, I know that you were leveraged too
So you can't just take a long-term view
Your broker shut you down
No more margin could be found
I never worried on the whole way up
Buying dot coms from the back of a pickup truck
But Friday I ran out of luck
It was the day the NASDAQ died
I started singin'
Bye-bye to my piece of the pie
Now I'm gettin' calls for margin
'Cause my cash account's dry
It's just two weeks from a new all-time high
And now we're right back where we were in
July
Yeah we're right back where we were in July
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