New Money

When your money makes you money

What's the well-to-do to do?

But buy another pony

With the interest they accrue?

While right across the bay

They're making fortunes on the go

Over there, the rich are "riche"

And the money is nouveau

Oh, the nouveau riche are reaching

For the scepter of the kings

And somewhere high above us

You've got Gatsby pullin' strings

Faster and faster, no slowin' 'em down

Lucky boy, you got the hottest ticket in town

A whole new ruling party

And your neighbor wears the crown

New money

Young, rich and wild

Reveled, reviled

You can't stop that

New money

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

New money

Watch it as it goes

New money

Watch it as it go, go, goes

New, new money

In West Egg there's no nest egg

No need to sit and brood

On piles of cash, they spend their stash at

Shocking magnitude

The kind of wealth you gotta see to believe

A level of luxury that's hard to achieve

And I don't wanna live here

But I never wanna leave

Oh

New money

Young, rich, and wild

Reveled, reviled

Don't you want that new money?

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

New money

Everything top shelf

New, new money

Can only top itself

New, new, new money

New money!

High roller, comin' through!

New money

When it's scanty

New money

Up the ante

Ooh, ooh

Butter me, honey

Tonight I'm on a roll

Tonight I'm on a roll

New money

Wolfsheim!

Hey, kitten! Wanna blow on my dice?

Are you kidding? I wanna throw 'em!

New money

Lucky 7s

New manna

From the heavens

Ooh, ooh

Butter me, honey

Tonight I'm on a roll!

New money

Haha! Who's the schoolteacher?

New manna

This is Nick Carraway

I see you lookin' at my cuff buttons

Finest specimens of human molars

Who was that?

That's Meyer Wolfsheim, he fixed the World Series

You can meet anyone at these parties

So where do we find Gatsby?

Can you point him out to me?

I've never even met him

The man's a mystery

Every night it seems his notoriety grows

I wonder if he's even at the parties he throws?

I think that it's dandy that he keeps a brandy handy

But his modus operandi?

No one really knows

Well, I heard Gatsby owns the patent for the Model T

I heard he's a spy

I heard he won this place in a horse race

I heard he killed a man

He's selling bathtub gin

He's Prussian royalty

Stock market?

He's flooded

Red carpet?

Star-studded

Black market?

Cold-blooded

Do you wanna dance?

My baby only wants new money

Do you believe that about Mr. Gatsby?

What?

The kind that washes so clean

That he killed a man? Wouldn't he be in jail?

My baby has a taste for new money!

Not if he didn't get caught!

She likes her legal tender tender and lean

Well, what kind of-

Jeez!

What kind of a person throws large parties he doesn't attend?

A person who likes large parties, I like large parties, they're so intimate

At small parties, there isn't any privacy

New money!

New money

Young, rich, and wild

Reveled, reviled

Don't you want that new money?

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

New money

Boats against the current

New, new money

Push against the tide

New, new, new money

We ride, we ride, we ride, we ride

New money

Young, rich, and wild

Reveled, reviled

Don't you want that new money?

Filling your pockets

Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last

I want that new money, crisp money

Straight from the mint money

Fresh money, young money

Push against the tide

Hey, we ride, we ride

Don't want that old money, bling money

Comes-with-strings money

Cold money, funny money

Push against the tide

We ride, we ride, we ride, we ride

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