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Artist: Daniel Johnston
Canonical path: /daniel-johnston/big-business-monkey
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Big Business Monkey
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Big Business Monkey
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Big business monkey
Nothing's funny
Big business monkey
Everything's money
You sold cheeseburgers with that cashier's smile
He runs his house like a burger king manager
And the only jokes he knows
Are the ones that'll put you down
Big business monkey
You'll take over the world
And you can have it now
But you can't take it with you
Everything you cling to will rot
And everything you do will be forgot
By everyone you ever tried to impress
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Daniel Johnston performs "Big Business Monkey", and this lyric page sits inside the Daniel Johnston catalog on LyroVerse.
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