Lyrics to
Easy Money

This version of Easy Money was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1979.

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South of the border and busted,
Caught by a woman I trusted,
Now don’t you call me a fool,
It could have happened to you,
It’s just my luck,
It had to happen to me.
Sweet Carmelita betrayed me
She said, “Take me home, serenade me.”
I figured a song could do me no wrong.
I didn’t know how wrong I could be.

Easy money for just one run to Peru.
It’ll be so easy. We’ll have no trouble gettin’ through.
Well I almost made it, except for that one border guard.
He opened up my guitar. Hello prison yard.
Goodbye easy money. Easy money.

The chiquita must have told ’em my story
‘Cause when my eyes finally focused next morning
Carmelita had spoken ’bout guitars and some coke
And she laughed as they slapped me in chains.

I was thrown in cell with a killer.
A convict who coughed through the night.
While I laid awake with the chills and shakes,
Hoping for a file in a cake.

Easy money for just one run to Peru.
It’ll be so easy. We’ll have no trouble gettin’ through.
Well I almost made it, except for that one border guard.
He opened up my guitar. Hello prison yard.
Just to make me mad he smashed my guitar.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye,
Easy money

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About Lyrics and Easy Money by Reo Speedwagon

The lyrics for Easy Money are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Reo Speedwagon. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Easy Money have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Easy Money - Reo Speedwagon and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Easy Money by Reo Speedwagon in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Easy Money" means the words set to the music of Easy Money, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reo Speedwagon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Easy Money and the lyrics to Easy Money are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reo Speedwagon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Easy Money, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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