MARIA MULDAUR - THREE DOLLAR BILL

THREE DOLLAR BILL

MARIA MULDAUR

SONGWRITER: MAC REBENNACK

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MARIA MULDAR

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1973

Maria Muldaur is the 1973 debut studio album of musician Maria Muldaur. The album includes "Midnight at the Oasis", her best-known single, which charted at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Three Dollar Bill", which charted at #7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. The album, which peaked at #3 on The Billboard 200, was certified gold by the RIAA on May 13, 1974.

The album was positively reviewed, and very positively in at least one case. Writing in October 1973, Rolling Stone's reviewer Jon Landau described the album as "one of the half-dozen best" of the year, "the kind of glorious breakthrough that reminds me why I fell in love with rock & roll." The album is heavily influenced by country and blues.

Maria Muldaur(born September 12, 1943) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis" and continues to record albums in the folk traditions.

Catch ya on the fly

And you leave 'em high and dry

But I'm up on your game baby

And your two-bit alibi

But you just wont quit

And you don't even wanna try

Your living out of your suitcase

And the rat-race will run you dry

You're just a three dollar bill

You're just a three dollar bill

Telling your traveling salesman jokes

Like a politician kissing babies hustlin votes

Baby, your just a three dollar bill

Ya weep for the young girls

You love em and you leave 'em

Your favorite hobby is seduce em and leave em

But one day you'll get caught

Messing up in the wrong room and

You'll be doing a shotgun wedding as a twelve gauge

Groom

You're just a three dollar bill

You're just a three dollar bill

Baby You've just been a wasting my time

A three dollar bill ain't even worth one dime

Baby, You're just a three dollar bill

You're just a three dollar bill

You're just a three dollar bill

Baby, You're kinda fit and your phony

You come around here so full of baloney

Baby, You're just a three dollar bill

You're just a three dollar bill

You're just a three dollar bill

Baby you're nothing but a three dollar bill

I can't use it, I don't want it

I can't spend it I don't need it

Baby, you're just a three dollar bill.