Folding Money (Live at the Continental Club, Austin, TX, September 2000)

When I was just a boy my granddaddy

Took me to town one afternoon

He drove an LTD, wore a big white Stetson

And two tone cowboy boots

He said, "Son here it goes', and he handed me a twenty

Just to see the look on my face

He said, 'don't tell your mama nothing about it

Don't spend it all in one place'

You see it takes folding money to get the deal done

Folding money to have a little fun

Folding money to pay a few bills

Eat a steak dinner and cure a couple ills

Folding money, you need a little stash

Greenback dollars and cold hard cash

Save it for a rainy day or go away a little bit, son

It takes folding money to get the deal done

Now ever since the day I learned to earn a dollar

I've been taking his advice to heart

'Cause when a man finds the courage to keep his cash

Some romance is bound to start

Now romance is just like money

You can always get more if you've got it

And let me tell you friends, I'm a lot more

Handsome with a see note in my pocket

You see it takes folding money to get the deal done

Folding money to have a little fun

Folding money to pay a few bills

To take a girl dancing and cure a couple ills

Folding money, you need a little stash

Greenback dollars and cold hard cash

Save it for a rainy day or go away a little bit, son

It takes folding money

It's a pain in the back, it's a cold hard fact

Gets to everybody sooner or later

You can give it to a charity and in some disparity

Stock up your refrigerator

[Incomprehensible], it'll kill you if you let it

You can blow it with nothing to show

It will make your wallet fatter but the truth

Of the matter's can't take it with you when you go

Better spend a little

Folding money to get the deal done

Folding money to have a little fun

Folding money to pay a few bills

Spread a little 'round and cure a couple ills