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taken from the album 'Latin Quarter revisited'
(released January 22, 2010 )

The new millionaires are the unemployed. Every Thursday they cash the cheques they receive from the labour office, but the money mightn’t even last until the next day. Sometimes the only quarters between you and a rainstorm are the quarters of the moon (wordplay: quarter = accommodation: quarter of the moon = quarter moon; 1 quarter = 25 cents). If a new situation arises, it only brings disaster – like Arbogast, the private detective in Alfred Hitchcocks “Psycho”. He is stabbed by Anthony Perkins, as he’s going up the stairs. “Enjoy your leisure time!” A member of the aristocracy said. If he had shared some of his wealth it would have sounded more convincing.

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THE NEW MILLIONAIRES
(Jeffries/Jones)

You can spend a cheque in the morning
And go hungry the same afternoon
Sometimes the only quarters between you and a rainstorm
Are the quarters of the moon?

You know that for every one way to sit up
There must be 500 ways to beg
How can you ever be a man of standing
With a chain wrapped round your leg?

Just like Arbogast on the top two stairs
You’re waiting for a carver to come cutting through your cares
You’re living on your savings but saving up your prayers
Come on down
New millionaires

The famous say walk in their footsteps
But don’t you go tread on the toes
And if you wait for luck to open up
You’ll be waiting there to see it close

Well it might have been a viscount
Or it might have been a prince
But when he said enjoy your leisure
He did nothing to convince us

Just like Arbogast on the top two stairs
You’re waiting for a carver to come cutting through your cares
You’re living on your savings but saving up your prayers
Come on down
New millionaires

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from Modern Times - conversation + songs alternative versions, released March 14, 2023
Steve Skaith | guitar, vocals
Steve Jeffries | piano
Siobhan Culhane | accordion, violin

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Latin Quarter are celebrating the 40th anniverary of their 'Modern Times'-album this year. They first burst onto the scene with their singles "Radio Africa" and "New Millionaires" – songs that stayed for months in the German single charts in the 80s. The band split up in 1998. In 2011 five of the original musicians got together again. 7 new albums released after this reunion. . ... more

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