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Ten Thousand Dollars

Ten thousand dollars . . .
Gimme $10,000 I said to the banker's son
Gimme 5 more months I'm gonna bullet a number one
I need . . . $10,000 to pay my debt
He said . . . $10,000 . . . I'll take 90%

I owe $9,999 in taxes
Uncle Sam wants to have a little chat, the man never relaxes
I guess . . . $10,000 would leave one for me
I get to make one phone call for free

Whoa, oh, oh, gimme me money - gimme money, money
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme me cash - just gimme the cash
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme me money - gimme money, money
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme cash - I need it fast
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme money - American money please!
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme cash
Well I really need $10,000, only $10,000

If you see my lawyer better start drawing up the deal
Gimme $10,000 and I'm like the man of steel
I need . . . $10,000 to make my day
$10,000 . . . to free my way

Whoa, oh, oh, gimme money - give me money, money
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme cash - just gimme the cash
Whoa, oh, oh, gimme money - give me money, money
Whoa, oh, oh, give me cash - I need it fast
Whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa oh, oh . . .

Peter Cross is the songwriter, the lead singer and he also sings all the harmony tracks, plus he's the arranger and the producer.

There's a lot of history behind this simple song. First performed and recorded by the second version of Magic, the song was about how Magic needed a short term loan to get through the next five months until the new year, by which time they fully expected to be enjoying fame and fortune generated by their smash hit record. But they were denied a loan because they had no collateral, so the banker's son, who was hanging around the band to absorb some of their sexual energy, decides to loan them some money, but he wants 90% (just like a record company, what a coincidence). The song was good and Magic really believed it was a hit, but the recording of the song was not as good as we thought, all the record companies passed on it, and the song was shelved.

Rediscovering an old cassette tape of this song which I had apparently stashed away in an antique record cabinet built by my grandfather which also contained Too Young to be Lonely and Sweet Pain was the incident which led to a chain of events that caused me to go back into a recording studio after many years of not playing music at all. You should have seen the damn supervisor's face during the "supervised visitation" that occurred in the recording studio when I invited Jason and Alex to watch me record all the vocals on this song. $10,000 hardly covers it. $10,000,000 would be more appropriate but it just doesn't sound right when I sing those words. What the hell, it's vintage wine and it still tastes good.