"They Just Don't Know What to Do With Their Wealth" - Marsh Family parody of Burt Bacharach / Dusty

We've been sharing wonderful Burt Bacharach songs with the kids, in the week that the world sadly lost one of the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century. So here's our tribute to him: our version of "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" - original lyrics by Hal David, and the song first recorded in 1962 but most famously delivered by Dusty Springfield (1964), Dionne Warwick (1966) and later given a quirky twist by the White Stripes (2003). We've given it our own blend!

We've given it a twist to have a dig at the super-rich whose antics in recent weeks and months have been pretty pathetic, even by their standards. You can try to figure out who you think it's about (we're not naming names...)

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LYRICS

They Just Don’t Know What To Do With Their Wealth!
They just don't know what to do with their wealth
Don't know just what to do with their wealth
They’re so used to hoarding profits they accrue
Hiding everything from view
They’re so well-to-do…

They just don't know what to do with their time
Tax avoidance, evasion, or crime
Buying social media platforms makes them sad
Football teams are just as bad
They don’t have a clue
But they can fast track the queue

They can broker loans
Between their dodgy friends
No-one needs to see how
They reap dividends

Disgust has grown at their fraud and their stealth
The trust eroded in true commonwealth
Maybe if they weren’t attention seeking clowns
We’d have more that trickled-down
To healthcare and schools
Not waste fossil fuels

They all want to pose
And be a “Lord” or “Dame”
They believe esteem comes
With a snobby name

They just don't know what to do with their wealth
It’s such a nightmare for BP and Shell
Don’t be stripping vital assets from the ground
Pay some tax, not cos you got found
Just pay what is due
You know it’s gross revenue

No, no, no – they don't know what else to do
They’re just amazingly gross, no, no, no, no

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Andy Riches
Brian Graham
Carol Leff
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