Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAAAACDADAEFAGHIJ IKDLDMNOCOPHPAQIRSTI| This is a song to celebrate banks | A |
| Because they are full of money and you go into them and all | B |
| you hear is clinks and clanks | A |
| Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills | A |
| Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills | A |
| Most bankers dwell in marble halls | A |
| Which they get to dwell in because they encourage deposits | A |
| and discourage withdrawals | A |
| And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe | C |
| betides the banker who fails to heed it | D |
| Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless | A |
| they don't need it | D |
| I know you you cautious conservative banks | A |
| If people are worried about their rent it is your duty to deny | E |
| them the loan of one nickel yes even one copper engraving | F |
| of the martyred son of the late Nancy Hanks | A |
| Yes if they request fifty dollars to pay for a baby you must | G |
| look at them like Tarzan looking at an uppity ape in the | H |
| jungle | I |
| And tell them what do they think a bank is anyhow they had | J |
| better go get the money from their wife's aunt or ungle | I |
| But suppose people come in and they have a million and they | K |
| want another million to pile on top of it | D |
| Why you brim with the milk of human kindness and you | L |
| urge them to accept every drop of it | D |
| And you lend them the million so then they have two million | M |
| and this gives them the idea that they would be better off | N |
| with four | O |
| So they already have two million as security so you have no | C |
| hesitation in lending them two more | O |
| And all the vice presidents nod their heads in rhythm | P |
| And the only question asked is do the borrowers want the | H |
| money sent or do they want to take it withm | P |
| Because I think they deserve our appreciation and thanks | A |
| the jackasses who go around saying that health and happi | Q |
| ness are everything and money isn't essential | I |
| Because as soon as they have to borrow some unimportant | R |
| money to maintain their health and happiness they starve | S |
| to death so they can't go around any more sneering at good | T |
| old money which is nothing short of providential | I |
Ogden Nash
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