Chorus:
Never use the word GOT they told me.
It was there in the rules they sold me,
On page forty three.
Don’t you know, “I’ve got to go now”
Should be “I ought to go”.

v.1. When I notice your fine yacht,
and what a lot of cash you’ve got,
I can’t put that in a song,
Because the syntax would be all wrong,
La la la la.

v.2. and when you drive your Rolls Royce ute,
Got to admit I think it’s beaut.
I can’t help but admire it.
Even though I can’t hope acquire it.
La la la la.
Chorus:

v.3. The Mullumbimby merchants prove it,
It’s not what you’ve got, but how you move it.
While you and I like as not
Will be arrested with the little we’ve got.
La la la la

v.4. And Standard Sawmill Association knows
it’s not what you’ve got, but how you bulldoze.
They’d take the whole of creation.
They should be logging their own plantations
By now.
Chorus: x 2

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