$16.15 (Tommy Banks, vocal)

from Songs-of-the-Week by Ira Marlowe

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lyrics

Want no trouble but it comes my way
fifth of each month like judgement day
scrapin' by is how you play
try to make do, try to make my way
I keep up with the day's events
but each day leaves me in suspense
in spite of all my good intents...

Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents
I got sixteen dollars and fifteen cents

Not like I don't know the deal
keep my shoulder to the wheel
pushing harder everyday
All it does is roll away
I can say in my defense
I can't live at no expense
look at all the evidence

Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents
I got sixteen dollars and fifteen cents

But there's a place somewhere
Where it aint what you got, it ain't what you got
but what you share
So if you need it
you can have it
it's all there
I paid my bills, I paid my rent
Here it is: what I ain't spent

(Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents)
Bangin' 'round here collecting dents
(Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents)
Here it was and there it went
(Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents)
Can't live without those dead presidents
(Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents)
American dream got a 'lectrified fence
(Sixteen dollars and fifteen cents)

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from Songs-of-the-Week, released February 19, 2016

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Ira Marlowe Berkeley, California

Ira Marlowe's songs have appeared in indy films, been featured on NPR and Dr. Demento, and received a Parent's Choice Award. He's taught songwriting at UC Berkeley and penned the tunes for four shows by a Tony-winning theatre troupe.

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