It's a Big Dumb World

from Cool Music for a Big Dumb World: The Best of the Bean Hoy Years by Mike Starling

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Cross-dressin’ chimps on the TV show
Crooks in the clink and on the old Dow Jones
Spinnin’ nothin’ into gold
It’s a big dumb world

Crazy people on the radio
Who gave them the microphone
To masquerade their bull as gold?
It’s a big dumb world

Too many people on the telephone
Got more stuff that can’t be sold
Spinnin’ thin air into gold
It’s a big dumb world

I used to put up a fight
Now I just smile
Cuz I know it’s all right

Scully and Fox and the cig-smokin’ dude
I’m hooked by God, nothin’ I can do
You say it’s crap, I say it’s gold
It’s a big dumb world

Billion-dollar babies
On the football field
CEOs with eight-figure deals
Sometimes I wonder if anything’s real
It’s a big dumb world

Words and music copyright ©1998 Mike Starling
Published by Bean Hoy Music (BMI)

Mike Starling: vocals, bass, drums, percussion, acoustic and electric guitars
Brett Huus and Jackson Huus (age 9): backing vocals

Recorded and mixed by Starling at Chateau Doré, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with additional recording by Brett Huus at Crooked Creek Studio, Brownsville, Minnesota

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from Cool Music for a Big Dumb World: The Best of the Bean Hoy Years, released March 8, 2019
Mike Starling: vocals, bass, drums, percussion, acoustic and electric guitars
Brett Huus and Jackson Huus (age 9): backing vocals

Recorded and mixed by Starling at Chateau Doré, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with additional recording by Brett Huus at Crooked Creek Studio, Brownsville, Minnesota

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