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    Consider the miser; study his ways;

    How obsession with wealth fills his days.

He’s one of Mammon’s most abject slaves.

The more money he has, the more he craves.

    When he’s gained vast wealth he doesn’t feel he’s finished.

    It’s not enough to be enlarged; others must be diminished.

Yes, he will argue and on this point he will always touch.

The rich have too little money; the poor have way too much.

    It’s called a deadly sin because it takes a terrible toll.

    It enters a man’s heart and proceeds to kill his soul.

"What’s in it for me?" he demands before filling any human need.

No, there’s no room for generosity in a heart filled with greed.

    "Greed is good", the stooge of Satan asserts,

    as he strives to turn men into moral perverts.

And this is the part that’s truly outrageous;

The sin of greed is highly contagious.

    He’s most successful in using the lure of bright gold

    in the market where politicians are bought and are sold.

He counts as his heroes the worst of corporate tax cheats

and admires the self-indulgence of billionaire deadbeats.

    To support civil society he won’t pay his fair share;

    though millions will suffer, he just doesn’t care.

It’s the love of money, every Christian knows,

that serves as the root from which evil grows.

    Christ told the rich man, under money’s vile spell,

    that when he dies he will certainly go to Hell.

Oh, he believes that his way into Heaven he can wheedle.

Yeah, just as soon as a camel goes through the eye of a needle.

    So the day will come when he goes to Forevermore,

    where he’ll spend eternity as the poorest of the poor.

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