Spare me that new-time Depression
[To the tune of "Old-Time Religion"]

Spare me that new-time Depression,
Spare me that new-time Great Depression,
Spare me that new-time Depression,
It's much too bad for me.

It got bad for Southeast Asia,
Indonesia and Malaysia,
All fell far enough to craze ya,
And it's much too bad for me.

[Chorus]

It got bad for the Japanese
When the Asian markets' freeze
Cut their banks off at the knees,
And it's much too bad for me.

[Chorus]

It got bad for Mother Russia,
Yeltsin's plight is quite a crusher,
It'd make you cry a gusher,
And it's much too bad for me.

[Chorus]

Wall Street had been full of jokers,
But the stocks are coming croakers,
By next week it could rain brokers,
And it's much too bad for me.

[Chorus]

Those folks in the high-tech sector,
On their upward-climbing vector,
Just got paged by Dr. Lecter,
And it's much too bad for me.

[Chorus]

So we'll hope that Alan Greenspan
Plays his cards like J. M. Keynes [*], and
Cuts a deal with the unseen hand
--'Cause it's much too bad for me.

[Chorus, with diminuendo & possibly deflation]

[*] Note: Readers from the right who would prefer a mention of Milton Friedman here are encouraged to try to fit him into the scansion.

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