Money Aint Everything

Intro Way down in Louisiana, where the moss and cyprus grew, You'd find old Jack in a shotgun shack In the back of the black bayou. Some folks called him crazy, but I knew better than that, He kept a hundred dollar bill tucked away in the brim Of his dirty old cowboy hat. Jack told me a story when I was ten years old, He said there once was a fool tried to swim this swamp With his back weighted down with gold. He said "You should have seen that alligator smile, He had a meal fit for a king, but he ended up on my table son, Money ain't everything." He said there's only one way into this world, And one way out, its true. You either eat the alligator or he's gonna eat you. There's people living in a high rise, That'll never hear a robin sing. What good is first place when you're in a rat race? Money ain't everything. Little Maggie May was dyin', her heart was about to go, When her daddy found a sack on the porch out back With half a million dollars in gold. They still talk about the stranger who saved her life that spring, No name on the note, but someone wrote: Money ain't everything. He said there's only one way into this world, And one way out, its true. You either eat the alligator or he's gonna eat you. There's people living in a high rise, That'll never hear a robin sing. What good is first place when you're in a rat race? Money ain't everything. No name on the note, but I know who wrote: Money ain't everything. (repeat chords to end)