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Ry Cooder

The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)

Ry Cooder

1970 - 1987

5 MINUTES AND 32 SECONDS • JUL 11 1979

Lyrics

My father told me, lying on his bed of death
"Boy," he says, "Woman she's gonna make it, don't fool your self
Mm mm 'cause she's got something to make a man
Lay that money, uh, right...
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Album tracklist

1
Alimony
02:55
2
France Chance
02:48
3
One Meat Ball
02:29
4
Do Re Mi
03:03
5
My Old Kentucky Home
01:48
6
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
02:46
7
Available Space
02:14
8
Pigmeat
03:08
9
Police Dog Blues
02:46
10
Goin' to Brownsville
03:24
11
Dark Is the Night
02:47
12
How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)
02:28
13
Billy the Kid
03:48
14
Money Honey
03:29
15
F.D.R. in Trinidad
03:05
16
Teardrops Will Fall
03:05
17
Denomination Blues
04:00
18
On a Monday
02:57
19
Hey Porter
04:42
20
Great Dream from Heaven
01:55
21
Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All
03:56
22
Vigilante Man
04:15
23
Boomer's Story
04:15
24
Cherry Ball Blues
04:13
25
Crow Black Chicken
02:20
26
Ax Sweet Mama
04:27
27
Maria Elena
04:32
28
Dark End of the Street
03:27
29
Rally 'Round the Flag
03:39
30
Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer
03:03
31
President Kennedy
04:38
32
Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man
04:31
33
Tamp' Em up Solid
03:22
34
Tattler
04:19
35
Married Man's a Fool
03:14
36
Jesus on the Mainline
04:11
37
It's All over Now
04:53
38
Medley: Fool for a Cigarette / Feelin Good
04:28
39
If Walls Could Talk [Explicit]
E
03:15
40
Mexican Divorce
03:57
41
Ditty Wah Ditty
05:42
42
The Bourgeois Blues
03:24
43
I Got Mine
04:28
44
Always Lift Him Up / Kanaka Wai Wai
06:03
45
He'll Have to Go
05:09
46
Smack Dab in the Middle
03:19
47
Stand by Me
03:44
48
Yellow Roses
06:12
49
Chloe
03:04
50
Goodnight Irene
04:32
51
School Is Out
02:41
52
Alimony
04:51
53
Jesus on the Mainline
05:19
54
The Dark End of the Street
06:31
55
Viva Sequin / Do Re Mi
05:27
56
Volver, Volver
03:59
57
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
06:33
58
Smack Dab in the Middle
08:01
59
Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now
03:36
60
Face to Face That I Shall Meet Him
03:21
61
The Pearls / Tia Juana
04:21
62
The Dream
05:06
63
Happy Meeting in Glory
03:16
64
In a Mist
02:09
65
Flashes
02:19
66
Davenport Blues
02:05
67
Shine
03:45
68
Nobody
05:12
69
We Shall Be Happy
03:13
70
Little Sister
03:52
71
Go Home, Girl
05:14
72
The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
05:32
73
I Think Its Going to Work Out Fine
04:44
74
Down in Hollywood
04:19
75
Look at Granny Run Run
03:12
76
Trouble, You Can't Fool Me
04:57
77
Don't Mess up a Good Thing
04:06
78
I Can't Win
04:14
79
634-5789
03:01
80
Speedo [Explicit]
E
03:23
81
Why Don't You Try Me
04:59
82
Down in the Boondocks
03:24
83
Johnny Porter
05:22
84
The Way We Make a Broken Heart
04:32
85
Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
05:07
86
The Girls from Texas
04:44
87
Borderline
03:23
88
Never Make Your Move Too Soon
06:08
89
UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto
05:02
90
I Need a Woman
04:37
91
Gypsy Woman
04:04
92
Blue Suede Shoes
05:21
93
Mama, Don't Treat Your Daughter Mean
05:59
94
I'm Drinking Again
04:38
95
Which Came First
03:46
96
That's the Way Love Turned out for Me
05:47
97
Get Rhythm
03:17
98
Low--Commotion
03:09
99
Going Back to Okinawa
04:42
100
13 Question Method
03:39
101
Women Will Rule the World
05:51
102
All Shook Up
03:30
103
I Can Tell by the Way You Smell
04:33
104
Across the Borderline
06:17
105
Let's Have a Ball
05:50
1970 - 1987
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The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
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