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Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
That's what I want to do
I want to spend it on you
Checking on a checkmate
Grassing on a classmate
So beautiful and fortunate
He hates to love, you love to hate
He can fix you for good
'Cause he is the neighborhood
You can't get money for blood
Blood money for doin' no good
But they won't take my love for tender
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
That's what I want to do
I want to spend it on you
Have you made your selection?
Are you ready for correction?
'Cause the wages of sin
Are an expensive infection
And it's under the counter
Under the Geiger counter
Who stole your thunder?
But they won't take my love for tender
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Clean Money |
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Written by | Elvis Costello |
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Performed by | Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
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Produced by | Nick Lowe |
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Musicians | Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar Steve Nieve - keyboards, backing vocal Bruce Thomas - bass, backing vocal Pete Thomas - drums, backing vocal Dave Edmunds - backing vocal |
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Recorded | August-September 1978, Eden Studios, London |
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Released | November 1980 |
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Albums | Armed Forces (Rykodisc/Demon reissue), 1993 Armed Forces (Rhino/Edsel reissue), 2002 |
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Singles | Clubland, 1980 |
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Collections | Taking Liberties, 1980 Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers, 1980 2½ Years, 1993 Singles, Volume 2, 2003 Rock And Roll Music, 2007 |
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Promos | Taking Liberties (4 track promo), 1980 Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers promo, 1980 |
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Length | 1:57 |
“The opening track of our 1979 album was supposed to be, “Clean Money”. It was definitely indebted to The Beatles “Back In The U.S.S.R” and a favourite group of ours from Madison, Wisconsin: Cheap Trick. Indeed, Rick Neilsen generously introduced us to a slightly skeptical crowd at “Bunky’s” in Madison in the Winter of 1977. I never did learn how to juggle all those guitars.” — Elviscostello.com (November 2020)
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The Dang Bangs
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performed live, 2014-03-XX
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2014
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YouTube
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Handshake Squad
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performed live, Costello tribute, Tampa, 2001-08-17
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2001
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