HOW THE MONEY "GOES."

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 736, 19 August 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW THE MONEY " GOES."

How goea the money ? Well, I'm sore it isn't hard to tell; It goes for rent and water-rates, For bread and butter, coal and grates, Hats, caps, and carpets, hoops and hoes— And that's the way the money goes. How goes the money ? Nay, Don't everybody know the way ? It goes for bonnet 3, coats, and capes, Silks, satins, muslins, velvets, crapes, Shawls, ribbons, furs and furbelows, And that's the way the money goes ! How goes the money I Sure, I wish the ways were sometimes fewer : It goe3 for wages, taxes, debts ; It goes for presents and for bets, For paint, pommade, and eau-de-rose — And that's the way the money goes ! How goes the money ? Now, I've scarce begun to mention how ; It goes for laces, feathers, rings, Toys, dolls, and other baby-thing 3, Whips, whistles, candies, bells and bows, Arid that's the way the money goes ! How goes the money ? Come, I know it doesn't go for rum ; It goes for schools and Sabbath chimes ; It goes for charity sometimes, For missiou3 and such things as those— And that's the way the money goes • How goes the money ? There ! I'm out of patience, I declare ; It goes for plays, and diamond-pins, For public alms and private sins, For hollow shams, and silly shows— And that's the way the money goes ! How goes the money ? Sandy, I'm sure it does not go to you now for brandy ; It goes to lawyers, parsons, priests and all, To publicans, snobs, drapers—big and small ; It goes to public sports, races mind, | And if a Lob's to be taken, Billy won't be far behind ; It goes to scatters, big-bugs, Mau»r.i such as those — And that's the way the money goes !