The World's One Hundred Wealthiest

The World's many billion people controlled by the greedy few But to every billionaire there is there are a million who Go to sleep weak and hungry their wasted bodies thin For days they have not eaten their bones showing through their skin. The world's one hundred wealthiest people their names published today And yet the poor grow poorer it has always been this way And the social gap keeps widening and with it inequality And not far from where the wealthy live there's want and poverty. Not far from where the wealthy live you see social decay The slums that reek of poverty the buildings old and gray The sad faced mother of the slums her kids out of control Her husband in jail for larceny and she is on the dole. Of the world's one hundred wealthiest people why should I wish to know? When poverty is rampant and the numbers of the hungry grow If the world's wealthiest person Bill Gates fed the hungry of Sudan I too would sing his praises and I'd say what a man. The world's weaalthiest people their names published today But not too far from where they live there is social decay And that they are worth billions show how greedy they must be When millions of poor people must live in poverty.