Play dough, play-ay-ay-dough
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
Play--me say play, me say play, me say play-ay-ay-dough--
(Daylight come--we gonna be poor folk)

Work all night, we get paid like bums
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
Cash our checks and we buy some crumbs
(Daylight come--we gonna be poor folk)

Come Mr Greenspan, tally us your big plans
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
Hey Mr Greenspan, can't find yer ass with both hands
(Daylight come--the whopper lies you spoke)

It takes 6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
(Of paper bucks to keep the family fed)
6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
(De paper printed daily of presidents dead)

Play--me say play-ay-ay-dough
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
Play--me say play, me say play, me say play-ay-ay-dough--
(De dollar be crashin--our retirement's a joke)

Sky-scraper piles of de paper bucks
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
The Fed spews daily they be shippin in trucks
(Daylight come--we gonna be poor folk)

It takes 6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
(Of paper bucks to keep a roof overhead)
6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
(Sold me car, got me a rusty mo-ped)

Play--me say play-ay-ay-dough
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
Play--me say play, me say play, me say play-ay-ay-dough--
(The dollar be crashin--on our bills we choke)

Come Mr Greenspan, blow de bubble bigger!
(Daylight come and we gonna go broke!)
Trillion dollar deficits--you're the market rigger
(Daylight come--we gonna be poor folk)

PLAY DOUGH, play-ay-ay-dough
(Daylight come and we will work till we croak)
Play--me say play, me say play, me say play-ay-ay-dough--
(Daylight come--and we be gettin STROKED!)