banker’s lament

(sing to the tune of Don McLean’s American Pie)

A long, long time ago…

I can still remember

How the Dow Jones used to make me smile.

And I learned my trade and had my chance

The music played I did my dance

And I made seven figures for a while.

I can’t remember if I cried when they pulled the plug on Countrywide…

It sucks that Iceland is out of ice….

Bye, Bye to my piece of the pie…

Now I travel coach whenever I fly…

Maybe this will be the day that I die.

-performed at this year’s Kappa Beta Phi dinner, Wall Street’s premiere secret society for hoity toity financiers (cmon boys, you’re not at Yale anymore).