"Profits, where all happiness is contained"

Business

A poem by Guillevic
Tune by Pete Seeger©1963 Stormking Music Inc.



Two million bushels of North African grain
Resold to Germany for Swiss francs
Paid for by a consortium of banks
With a deal in futures that the Stock Exchange
Unloads for coffee from Brazilian uplands
Destined for Paris, Before the whole deal sinks
The checks written in indelible inks
Outrace Atlantic's winter hurricanes

At last the coffee arrives, also the wheat
Needless to say, the deal was a success
Who can deny that all of us have gained?
Our benefactors? Three trusts. They compete
For honor, glory, power and of course,
Profits, where all happiness is contained



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