By Chuck Marunde, J.D.

They preached long term investing in the stock market,
the gurus, the brokers, those Wall Street tokers.
I invested my hard earned money
so I could grow old and take care of my honey.

What I didn’t know is they were greedy,
the gurus, the brokers, those Wall Street tokers.
While I chose conservative funding,
they sold derivatives with their cunning.

They lost my savings and my future,
the gurus, the brokers, those Wall Street tokers.
But they went home with billions,
While my government spends trillions.

While I worked 40 years, they partied on their yachts,
the gurus, the brokers, those Wall Street tokers.
I carefully invested in WaMu, GM, and Microsoft,
But then I didn’t count on greed and fraud and Madoff.

So I’ll sing a song, a favorite of my youth to
the gurus, the brokers, those Wall Street tokers.
Hi ho, hi ho, off to work I go, I’m screwed,
I’m screwed, I’m screwed, I’m screwed, I’m screwed,
I’m screwed, I’m screwed, I’m screwed.

Oh, wait, I don’t have a job anymore.