MONEY (adicta a Cabaret)

Reconozcámoslo: ir a ver Cabaret el musical me ha dejado peor de la cabeza de lo que suelo estar. Llevo días oyendo obsesivamente sus canciones (intercaladas con Barenaked Ladies, que tampoco son el colmo de la salud mental... Y es que son Canadienses como mis amadísimos Tea Party, ¿qué más puedo decir?), así que entre unos y otros mis niveles de cinismo suben como la espuma. No es que me venga mal estos días.

Y de muestra un botón. Decidme que el bueno de EMCEE no tiene más razón que un santo:


[EMCEE]
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round.

A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round.


[GIRLS]
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money

[EMCEE]
If you happen
To be rich,
And you feel like a
Night's entertainment,
You can pay for a
Gay escapade.

If you happen to
To be rich,
And alone, and you
Need a companion
You can ring-ting-
A-ling for the maid.
If you happen
To be rich
And you find you are
Left by your lover,
Though you moan
And you groan
Quite a lot,

You can take it
On the chin,
Call a cab,
And begin
To recover
On your fourteen-
Carat yacht.

Money makes the world go around,
The world go around,
The world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
Of that we can be sure.
(....) on being poor.

[ALL]
Money money money-
money money money
Money money money-
money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money

[EMCEE AND GIRLS (In Canon)]
If you haven't any coal in the stove
And you freeze in the winter
And you curse on the wind
At your fate
When you haven't any shoes
On your feet
And your coat's thin as paper
And you look thirty pounds
Underweight.
When you go to get a word of advice
From the fat little pastor
He will tell you to love evermore.
But when hunger comes a rap,
Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window...

[GIRLS]
At the window...

[EMCEE (spoken)]
Who's there?

[GIRLS (spoken)]
Hunger!

[EMCEE (Spoken)]
Ooh, hunger!

See how love flies out the door...
For

[EMCEE]
Money makes
The world...
[GIRLS]
...Go around
[EMCEE]
The world...
[GIRLS]
...Go around
[EMCEE]
The world...
[GIRLS]
...Go around
[EMCEE]
Money makes the
.... Go around
[GIRLS]
...Go around

That clinking
Clanking sound of
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money

[EMCEE]
Is all that makes
The world go 'round
It makes the world go round!

P.D.: ¿Alguien más se ha dado cuenta que el título de la canción (y disco) de El Último de la Fila "Cuando el hambre entra por la puerta, el amor salta por la ventana" es una paráfrasis de la frase de EMCEE "when hunger comes a rap at the window... See how love flies out the door..."?