The Money Rings Out Like Freedom

Lyrics

[COCO, spoken] The revolution was on Any time the younger generation rebels The rebellion begins in clothes And the dresses in that shop were the firebrands That stormed the corset, cut open the laces And freed women from the Victorian padded cell And as I freed them, they freed me Franc by franc by franc [COCO] Oh, the money rings out like freedom Clink-clink-a-jingle That primitive sound is freedom to me Free to parade up The Ruе de la Paid-up As equal as I can be Evеry franc in the bank is freedom Clink-clink they jingle We live in a world where cabbage is king So dime, mark and kroner Come make me your owner And let freedom ring One day In May The duke and I Let the tempers fly And I told him whither to go and stay So he invited to the next soirée A buxom bore for whom he'd bought A diamond bigger than a diamond ought To be Did he And I knew why To make me cry But I came wearing imitation junk So large and gaudy that her diamond shrunk The crowd went wild for the glass display And costume jewelry was here to stay What a coup! What luck! Tell the bank to send a truck! Oh, the money rings out like freedom Clink-clink-a-jingle That capital tune is chiming, "I'm free" My heart rejoices When I hear invoices That sing out so solvently One spring The King Of I forgot Exactly what Picked the Grand Canal to have a fête Which no one there ever will forget All the rich and famous in a great chorale Saw me tumble in the Grand Canal It's true My shoe Ensnared my gown And I went down And "down" in Venice means really under Which made me wet and made me wonder Would this have happened if by some chance Instead of a gown I wore men's pants? Then soon all the sisters and the cousins and the aunts Were calling me the pirate of men's pants What a stroke! How divine! Call me up in Liechtenstein Oh, the money rings out like freedom Clink-clink they jingle A queen with a lot of jack is a king So kopeck and lira Come nearer, nearer And let freedom ring Alex died Without a word of warning To friends I cried I'll put the world in mourning And out of the depths of my distress Came the basic little black dress Alex gone! What a shame! What a hit that dress became! [COCO & ENSEMBLE] Oh, the money rings out like freedom Clink-clink they jingle [COCO] Translated it means I kowtow no more Up goes the income And out go the nincom- Poops I had to please before [COCO & ENSEMBLE] All the pelf on the shelf is freedom Clink-clink they jingle [COCO] With money to pay, oh debt, where's thy sting? So come, legal tender Be tender, surrender And let freedom ring So come, sweet peseta Come sooner, not later [COCO & ENSEMBLE, COCO] And let freedom, freedom ring [COCO & ENSEMBLE] Freedom! (Ah) Let it ring! (Ah) Freedom! (Ah)