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Beans Taste Fine

Now a friend of mine, way back in Chicago 
You know, he finally made his pile.
Well he got himself a mansion on Butler and Sheff 
And he was living in the latest style;
But I run into him, he was eating in a greasy spoon
While parkled in front was his big limousine. 
I said, "Buddy, you've got so much money 
How come youre in here, eating beans?"
And he said
"After you've been having steak for a long time, 
Beans, beans taste fine.
And after you've been drinking champagne and brandy 
You gonna settle for wine."
He said: "The world is funny, and people are strange, 
And man is a creature of constant change, and
After you've been having steak for a long time 
Beans, beans taste fine."
Now, you know I ran into another friend of mine 
In a rowdy old Clark Street Bar.
I said: "Friend, it is true what I heard about you?
I heard you married a beautiful 18-year-old shapely movie star,
Yet here you sit, trying to make out with some barfly 
Who's too old and ugly to be true. "
He said, "Shelley, you're still a very young man
So sit down. I 'like explain it all to you.
He said
"After you've been having steak for a long time 
Beans, beans taste fine. 
And after you've been drinking champagne and Chivas Regal
You gonna settle for Thunderbird wine."
He said "The world is funny, and people are strange, and
After you've been having steak for a long time 
Beans, beans taste fine."0