Jason Howland
New Money
[JORDAN]
When your money makes you money
What's the well-to-do to do
But buy another pony
With the interest they accrue?
While right across the bay they're making fortunes
On the go
Over there, the rich are "riche"
And the money is nouveau
Oh, the nouveau riche are reaching
For the scepter of the kings
And some are high above us
You've got Gatsby pullin' strings
Faster and faster
No slowin 'еm down
Lucky, boy you got the hottest ticket in town
A wholе new ruling party
And your neighbor wears the crown

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Young, rich and wild
Reveled, reviled
You can't stop that
[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Watch it as it goes

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Watch it as it go, go, goes

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new money

[JORDAN]
Bah dat bap bap bah!
In West Egg there's no nest egg
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, o-oh!

[JORDAN]
No need to sit and brood

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh!

[JORDAN]
On piles of cash they spend their stash at

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, o-oh!

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
Shocking magnitude

[JORDAN]
The kind of wealth you gotta see to believe

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh!

[JORDAN]
A level of luxury that's hard to achieve
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh!

[JORDAN]
I don't wanna live here
But I never wanna leave
O-o-oh!

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
New money
Young, rich and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Everything top shelf

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new money

[JORDAN]
Can only top itself

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new, new money

[JORDAN]
Bah dat bap bap bap bah-yah!

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
New money!

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
High roller, comin' through!

[GANGSTERS]
Ooh, ooh, ooh oo-oh!

[WOLFSHEIM]
(Scatting)

[WOLFSHEIM, ENSEMBLE]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM]
When it's scanty

[WOLFSHEIM, ENSEMBLE]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM]
Up the ante
Ooh, ooh
Butter me, honey
Tonight I'm on a roll!

[GANGSTERS]
Tonight I'm on a roll
New money

(Spoken)

[JORDAN]
Wolfsheim!

[WOLFSHEIM]
Hey, kitten! Wanna blow on my dice?

[JORDAN]
Are you kidding? I wanna throw 'em!

(Sung)

[WOLFSHEIM, ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Lucky 7s!

[WOLFSHEIM, ENSEMBLE]
New man up

[WOLFSHEIM]
From the heavens

[JORDAN, WOLFSHEIM]
Ooh, ooh
Butter me, honey
Tonight I'm on a roll!

[GANGSTERS]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
Haha! Who's the schoolteacher?

[GANGSTERS]
New man up

[JORDAN, spoken]
This is Nick Carraway

[GANGSTERS]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
I see you lookin' at my cuff buttons

[GANGSTERS]
New man up

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
Finest specimens of human molars

[GANGSTERS]
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

[NICK, spoken]
Who was that?

[JORDAN, spoken]
That's Meyer Wolfsheim. He fixed the World Series. You can meet anyone at these parties

(Sung)

[NICK]
So where do we find Gatsby?

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!

[NICK]
Can you point him out to me?

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh!

[JORDAN]
I've never even met him

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!

[JORDAN]
The man's a

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
Mystery

[JORDAN]
Every night it seems his notoriety grows
I wonder if he's even at the parties he throws?
I think that its dandy that he

[ENSEMBLE]
O-o-oh!

[JORDAN]
Keeps a brandy handy

[ENSEMBLE]
O-o-o-oh!
A-a-ah!

[JORDAN]
But his modus operandi?
No one really knows

[PARTYGOER #1]
Well, I heard Gatsby owns the patent for the Model T

[PARTYGOER #2]
I heard he's a spy

[PARTYGOER #3]
I heard he won this place in a horse race

[PARTYGOER #4]
I heard he killed a man

[ENSEMBLE]
*gasps*

[JORDAN]
*unimpressed*

[PARTYGOER #5]
He's selling bathtub gin

[PARTYGOER #6]
He's Prussian royalty

[PARTYGOER #7]
Stock market?

[PARTYGOER #8]
He's flooded

[PARTYGOER #9]
Red carpet?

[PARTYGOER #10]
Star-studded

[PARTYGOER #11]
Black market?

[PARTYGOER #12]
Cold-blooded

[SOPRANOS, ALTOS]
Do you wanna dance?

[ENSEMBLE]
Woo! Woo!
My baby only wants new money!

[NICK, spoken]
Do you really believe that about Mr. Gatsby?

[JORDAN, spoken]
What!?

[ENSEMBLE]
The kind that washes (?)

[NICK, spoken]
That he killed a man? I mean, wouldn't he be in jail?

[ENSEMBLE]
My baby has a taste for new money!

[JORDAN, spoken]
Not if he didn't get caught!

[ENSEMBLE]
She likes her legal slender, tender and mean

[NICK, spoken]
What kind-

[ENSEMBLE]
Doo, doo

[JORDAN, spoken]
Jeez!

[ENSEMBLE]
Doo, doo

[NICK,spoken]
What kind of a person throws large parties he doesn't attend?

[ENSEMBLE]
Doo, doo
D-roo, doo
Doo, doo

[JORDAN,spoken]
A person who likes large parties

[ENSEMBLE]
Doo, doo
Doo, doo

[JORDAN, spoken]
I like large parties

[ENSEMBLE]
Doo, doo-wah

[JORDAN, spoken]
They're so intimate. At small parties, there isn't any privacy

(Sung)

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!
New money!

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
New money
Young, rich and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it

[JORDAN]
Heaven knows if it'll last

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Boats against the current

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new money

[JORDAN]
Push against the tide

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new, new money

[JORDAN]
We ride, we ride, we ride
(Riffing)

[ENSEMBLE]
New money
Young, rich and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

[JORDAN]
I want that
New money
Crisp money

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!

[JORDAN]
Straight from the mint money

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!

[JORDAN]
Fresh money
Young money
Push against the tide

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!

Hey!
We ride, we ride

[ENSEMBLE]
We ride, we ride

[JORDAN]
Don't want that

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
Old money

[JORDAN]
Clean money

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
Comes-with-strings money

[JORDAN]
Cold money
Funny money

[JORDAN, ENSEMBLE]
Push against the tide
We ride, we ride, we ride, we ride
Yeah!
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh!