YESTERDAY
Merle has decided not to release a recording of this one, so as to avoid getting a call from lawyers for the Beatles.
This song is the lament of a former leveraged buyout king, not too long after the credit bubble burst in 2007. Sing to the tune of the Beatles song.
Yesterday
by Merle Hazard
Yesterday
Leveraged buyouts were the game to play
Now I need a job with steady pay
Oh I believe in yesterday
Suddenly
Yale’s endowment will not talk to me
And I will not earn my closing fee
The leverage left so suddenly
Why…banks…lent to me
So readily, I just can’t say
Maybe they were wrong.
Oh, how I long
For yesterday
Yesterday
I bought shares of stock on layaway
But cash is now the only way to pay
Oh I believe in yesterday
Why…banks…lent to me
So readily, I just can’t say
Maybe they were wrong.
Oh, how I long
For yesterday
Yesterday
I took Lear Jets down to Lyford Cay
Now it’s weenie roasts and feet of clay
Oh I believe in yesterday
Mmmmmm
Yesterday