Culture Club

Songwriter: Boy George Jon Moss Michael Craig Roy Hay

Producer: Steve Levine

[Chorus]
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, yeah)
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, wo-oah yeah)

[Verse 1]
Fortunes find you
Cross out every emotion
Standing right behind
A shadow of devotion
Somebody else's life
Cannot be mine

[Pre-Chorus]
But when you love someone
And they don't love you in return
When you love someone
You've got money to burn

[Chorus]
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, yeah)
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, wooah)

[Verse 2]
I believe that
Nothing could come between us
Magic potions
Won't you save them for dreamers
Somebody else's life cannot be mine

[Pre-Chorus]
But when you love someone
And they don't love you in return
When you love someone
You've got money to burn

[Chorus]
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, yeah)
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, woah woah, yeah)

[Verse 3]
Give me some love
But don't waste my time
(Wooah, black money, yeah!)
I'll love you again
But you must be mine
Oh, black money, yeah (Ah, ha ha! Black money, yeah)
Give me some love
But don't waste my time
(Wooah, black money, yeah!)

[Pre-Chorus]
But when you love someone
And they don't love you in return
When you love someone
You've got money to burn

[Chorus]
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal it, anytime?)

[Verse 1]
Fortunes find you
Cross out every emotion
Standing right behind
A shadow of devotion
Somebody else's life
Cannot be mine

[Pre-Chorus]
But when you love someone
And they don't love you in return
When you love someone
You've got money to burn

[Chorus]
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, yeah)
Do you deal in black money
Do you deal in black money (do you deal, wo-oah yeah)

[Verse 3]
Give me some love
But don't waste my time
(Wooah, black money, yeah!)
I'll love you again
But you must be mine
Oh, black money, yeah (Ah, ha ha! Black money, yeah)
Give me some love
But don't waste my time
(Wooah, black money, yeah!)

[Outro]
Don't waste my time
Oh, yeah
Black money (Black money!)
Oooh, black money, oh (Black money!)
(Black money, yeah!)
(Black money, yeah!)
(Black money, yeah!)
(Black money, yeah!)
(Black money, yeah!)
(Black money, yeah!)
(Black money, yeah!)

Culture Club is a New Wave / Pop Band from London England who are known for a string of pop hits during the 1980s. Their second album, Colour By Numbers, sold more than 10 million albums, was ranked the 96th best album of the 1980s by Rolling Stone, and contained their most famous song Karma Chameleon.

Formed in 1981 by lead singer Boy George, bassist Mikey Craig, drummer Jon Moss and guitarist Roy Hay, Culture Club was named after the diversity in ethnicity and backgrounds of it’s members. They were soon after signed to Virgin records, but it wouldn’t be until the press realized Boy George’s androgynous style, before Culture Club would take off as pop hit masters.

Culture Club sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and had international success with songs such as “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”, “Time (Clock of the Heart)” and “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”.

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Colour by Numbers (1983)

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