Stock market tigers
There's a rouble in the rubble
But the trouble with the bubble
is it's burst.
I said to Renie Rivkin
it's time to put the boot in,
the Hang Seng grown flaky
and the Nikkei looking shaky
time to sell right now
before the Dow turns sour.
I had a bad case of the titters
when Wall Street got the jitters
with the Korean currency
looking pale and won.
There's a rouble in the rubble
But the trouble with the bubble
is it's burst.
With the Philippino peso in a mess
causing widespread horror and distress
exposing tiger markets in a state of their undress
there will be a lot of slipping
but there'll be no skinny dipping in the Thai baht.
There's a rouble in the rubble
But the trouble with the bubble
is it's burst.
I rang old George Soros,
he said "Get one thing clear
you're going to get a sore arse
holding on to the rupiah.
The crisis is real and it's near.
Battalions at Dili and Bacau
are of little help to them now
spreading hate and fear
undermining the rupiah
and then sometime this year
Suharto will disappear."
There's a rouble in the rubble
But the trouble with the bubble
is it's burst.
Some things you can't ignore
at every large chain store
on the fourteenth floor
opportunities abound.
Open windows can be found
so let the high flyers fly.
You can smile as they go by.
You'll hear just a muffled cry,
until they hit the ground.
Though it isn't free
there is a nominal fee
at the local cemetery
plots six foot by three —
all found.
There's a rouble in the rubble
But the trouble with the bubble
is it's burst,
and if someone doesn't buy me one
I'm gonna die of thirst.
— By John Tomlinson