{"id":62,"date":"2005-11-17T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=62"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T00:06:30","slug":"gospel-of-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/11\/17\/gospel-of-greed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel of Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gospel
\nMatthew 19:24<\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span> shoulda been a preacher.<\/p>\n

I’ve got it in me.<\/p>\n

Not the good kind of preacher, who is always there to help or talk his parishioners through life’s troubles. Who gives and gives and never thinks of himself.<\/p>\n

Not hardly.<\/p>\n

No. Of course, I mean the bad kind of preacher.<\/p>\n

Not necessarily Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter<\/span>… but something on that continuum. The sinner-preacher. Seducing the spinsters and lonely housewives and cheating the men in land deals. Maybe run for office, too… makes a certain kind of sense.<\/p>\n

And that brings us smack face to face with this song…<\/p>\n\n

produced version<\/a>\u00a0[soundclick]<\/p>\n

Gospel of Greed<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the gospel of greed
\nthey call it the age of me
\nbut it isn’t just I
\nHoney, it’s them and thee<\/p>\n

Now it’s natural to want to
\ntake care of yourself
\nbut when you take too much
\nyou steal from someone else<\/p>\n

and if you think they’re gonna take it lying down
\nyou must be some kinda politician or TV-preacher clown
\nriding around in your Mercedes Benz
\ngivin money to hookers and screwing your friends<\/p>\n

(You’re singing)
\nI don’t care if the Eskimos freeze
\nlong as they don’t sneeze on me
\nI don’t care if the starving survive
\nlong as they don’t try to make a feast of a slice of my pie<\/p>\n

(C)1990, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew 19:24 I shoulda been a preacher. I’ve got it in me. Not the good kind of preacher, who is always there to help or talk his parishioners through life’s troubles. Who gives and gives and never thinks of himself. Not hardly. No. Of course, I mean the bad kind of preacher. Not necessarily Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[617,700,305,699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}