VERY, VERY, VERY

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Song Title
VERY, VERY, VERY
Writers
Weill, Nash
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
US
Themes/Keywords
Kingdom, Penny, Pleasures, Rich, Tax, Troubles, Wealth, Wealthy
Lyrics
One way to be very wealthy is to be very, very, very rich;
One can pile up mink and ermine like a hermit accumulates vermin,
If you occupy the proper financial niche.
One way to be very happy is to be very, very, very rich;
There are kinds of human pleasures that are not to be purchased with treasures,
But I can’t remember exactly which.
I’ve heard my gilded friends complain there are troubles money cannot cure.
But a trouble is a trouble is a trouble, and it’s twice the trouble when a person is poor.
In the carefree kingdom of the wealthy you will never see an eyebrow twitch;
It’s a minor peccadillo to patronize the wrong pillow when you’re very, very, very rich.
Sit down, my dear, I’ll have the soup on as soon as I clip this coupon.
Last year I paid for the maid’s appendix, now she’s taken a job with Bendix.
It’s weeks since I heard a word of gossip, what’s the latest from Jane and Ossip?
She’s a girl that dozens are the beau of, she’s been faithful to him twice that I know of.

Damn Uncle Pierpont! He left me a packet and moved me into a higher bracket.
Since Sally ran off with her obstetrician, her hair’s turned red and she looks like a Titian.
Of course I’d hate to swear in court what kind of Titian beaut or mort.
(beautician) (mortician)
Have you paid your platina fur tax? I am up to my neck in surtax.

One way to never spend a penny is to be very, very, very rich;
If you live along Park Avenue you’ve dandy credit, hav-e-nue?
So why pay your grocery bills and sich?
In the dreamy night life of the wealthy, true love unwinds without a hitch;
You just engage Menuhin to fiddle her to her ruin,
When you’re very, very, very, very rich.

One way to be very wedded is to be very, very, very prosperous;
You can sublimate your passion on a Balkan or Circassian.
And then toss them legally in the Bosporus.
In the costly dotage of the wealthy you resurrect that bygone itch;
You huddle with your memoirs and boy! what memoirs them was!
When you’re very, very, very, very rich.

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