Rob, my husband, does a weekly thing he calls Song Lyric Thursday, an idea he “borrowed” from Uncle Keith. Essentially he picks a song, that may or may not have deep meaning, posts the lyrics and if he is lucky and can scrounge up a YouTube video, his readers get to hear the song as well.

This week I am following suit because I got a song stuck in my head that goes along really well with a news item I stumbled across about a 2005 Extreme Home Makeover family in Georgia who are now in foreclosure. It seems that despite the ABC show building them a mansion worth close to a half million dollars AND raising a fund of another quarter million to not only pay the taxes on it for 25 years plus put their three children through college – they’ve lost it all. Apparently they sat on the house and cash for roughly a year before deciding to go into the construction business (and before you wonder – no neither husband nor wife had any experience in that area) which they financed against the entire balance of equity in their PAID FOR freebie home. Within 15 months, they were broke and the bank is foreclosing.

The American Dream in a nutshell. Win the lottery or its equivalent and blow it.

To make matters a tad more interesting, this family was not your typical Extreme Makeover bunch. They had healthy children. No heart wrenching disabilities or illnesses. Something that always made my stomach lurch about this show was the way it sought out people in their misery and in exchange for a house and some cool tech – exploited them for an hour or two for profit.

Anyway, in dedication to all the Extreme Makeovers (wouldn’t that be compelling television revisiting some of them a few years later?) here is a Thursday Song Lyric:

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I’d buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I’d buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a K-Car
(A nice Reliant automobile)
If I had a million dollars I’d buy your love

If I had a million dollars
I’d build a tree fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could help, it wouldn’t be that hard
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny fridge in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already be laid out foods for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things

They have pre-wrapped sausages but they don’t have pre-wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame ’em
Uh, yeah

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a fur coat
(But not a real fur coat that’s cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you an exotic pet
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you John Merrick’s remains
(Ooh, all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I had a million dollars I’d buy your love

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn’t have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we’d take a limousine ’cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ke… dijon ketchups!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that’s cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you some art
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a monkey
(Haven’t you always wanted a monkey)

If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your love

If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I’d be rich