Billionaires
Some countries boast of shrunken heads
And some grow prickly pears
For some, it’s divers on sea-beds
But we have billionaires
Some have a crime-rate zagging down
Some specialise in chairs
Some stitch the most elaborate gown
But we have billionaires
I know of places full of mirth
And states with grizzly bears
Of lands that have most fertile earth
But we have billionaires
They come in handy, like a swab
To wash a filthy sink
A billionaire creates a job,
And one almighty stink
What luck that we should own such skill –
Instead of odes or airs
We have the first-rate taste of swill
For we have billionaires
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