Flying Over Sunset - Funny Money Lyrics

2021 Broadway
Flying Over Sunset the Musical - Funny Money Lyrics

The song is written by Tom Kitt and Michael Korie. Performed by Atticus Ware (Archie), Tony Yazbeck (Cary) and Nehal Joshi (Father).

ARCHIE LEACH:
Some blighters are not living
Working all the live long day
My people ain’t so holy as a saint, so
Here’s the way we pay the landlord

CARY GRANT: (spoken)
I know this

ARCHIE LEACH:
Papas in the park to mooch
Mumsy’s brewing bathtub hooch
Sissy sells the sailors kissy wissys
Brother picks the pants of

CARY GRANT:
Nancy sissys

ARCHIE LEACH:
Gramps is printing phony quid
Nana

CARY GRANT:
Flips the ?
I knew I knew it

ARCHIE LEACH:
Me I juggle plates and make them spin
And the funny money rolls right in

CARY GRANT:
Right in

BOTH:
Now the funny money rolls right in

CARY GRANT: (spoken)
The take is tidy
Monday to Friday

ARCHIE LEACH:
Auntie pinches silver spoons and creamers

CARY GRANT:
Uncle steals the wheels of Stanley Steamеrs

ARCHIE LEACH:
Cousin Freddy fences ?

CARY GRANT:
His littlе hobby

ARCHIE LEACH:
I did in the laundry chute

CARY GRANT:
To trick the ?

ARCHIE LEACH:
[?]

ARCHIE LEACH:
And the funny money rolls right in

CARY GRANT:
Right in

ARCHIE LEACH:
Come on!

DR. HARRIS: (spoken)
Are you sure you don’t want to sit Mr. Grant?

CARY GRANT: (spoken)
I have to finish the number doctor

DR. HARRIS: (spoken)
Please take your seat

FATHER:
Look at you, ya little fairy in a girlie’s dress

ARCHIE LEACH:
Mother put it on me

FATHER:
Don’t you know your mother’s crazy,
Or are you a wee princess

ARCHIE LEACH:
I’m not pops

FATHER:
Wear a pair of pants you sissy like a proper lad puts on
Blame your mother

ARCHIE LEACH:
Where is mother?

FATHER:
How should I know?
Gone

ARCHIE LEACH:
Gone?

CARY GRANT:
Tell me why you lied to me

FATHER:
To spare your future son before she made a puff of you
I did what must be done

ARCHIE LEACH:
I hate you, I’ve always hated you
Hit me go on hurt me I won’t blink an eye
I won’t even flinch

ARCHIE LEACH & CARY GRANT:
You can’t make me cry

ARCHIE LEACH:
Tell the truth about the [?]

CARY GRANT:
That’s all behind me

ARCHIE LEACH:
Right there [?]

CARY GRANT:
That’s all behind me

ARCHIE LEACH:
Living hand to mouth depressed and moody

CARY GRANT:
Look at me today
Blimey what they pay
Just to hear me saying
Judy, Judy, Judy

CARY GRANT:
Though for now your life is [?]

ARCHIE LEACH:
Til you rewrote it

CARY GRANT:
Chin up kid, a champagne [?]

ARCHIE LEACH:
Don’t sugarcoat it!
Hungry all the time I’m bones and skin

CARY GRANT:
Til the funny money helps you win

ARCHIE LEACH:
Me win

CARY GRANT:
When the funny money rolls

ARCHIE LEACH:
And rolls

BOTH:
And rolls, and rolls, and rolls, and rolls
Right
In