"Dollar Bill" genre: Folk
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	Wry commentary on the power of money, narrated from the perspective of money itself - originally entitled Song of a Five Pound Note
	Story Behind the Song Idea originally inspired by an item in Michel Quoist's Prayers of Life where he meditates on the sordid and uplifting scenes witnessed by a banknote during its lifetime. Lyrics I am the paper that buys the milk pays the boy to take away the empties paper for the paper that hangs on the wall and the paper that you read over your shreddies I am the payrise that took you so long the figure in your books that doesn't tally you open your cheque book and find I am gone for a payment on the freezer or the telly I am the paper that pays the rent for the tenements with their stairways full of children I wrap the tobacco that blackens your lungs and I am the friend who gets the drinks in I'll tempt you with an oyster or amuse you with a prawn or twist you up with pain to die of hunger I'll lead you with a carrot of security and warmth till you're too old for me to use you any longer Who is the leader and who the led the busy man has no time to reply just give me your devotion, I'll see that you're fed Home and terribly dry Home and terribly dry

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