Money Top Ten: Take the Money and Run (#5)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86866)
United States
March 4, 2022 10:36am CST
Remember a few days ago when I told you I wasn’t trying to mess with your minds? There were two different songs with the same title on this list of favorites with “money” in the title? And I promised you the one you were thinking about with that title would be along soon enough? I’m no politician, I keep my promises!
#5: Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
The harmonies don’t match David Crosby and Graham Nash, but you can’t have everything in music. 
Yep, it’s that “Take the Money and Run” that you were thinking about. Stevie Guitar Miller and his horrible rhyming schemes (El Paso/great big hassle; and Texas/facts is/justice/taxes).
And who cares (well, save for his grammar teacher in grade school )? It’s a classic song from a classic album.
Take the Money and Run
Written by Steve Miller
Recorded by the Steve Miller Band
From Fly Like an Eagle, 1976
Sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube:
Yep, it’s that “Take the Money and Run” that you were thinking about. Stevie Guitar Miller and his horrible rhyming schemes (El Paso/great big hassle; and Texas/facts is/justice/taxes).
And who cares (well, save for his grammar teacher in grade school )? It’s a classic song from a classic album.
Take the Money and Run
Written by Steve Miller
Recorded by the Steve Miller Band
From Fly Like an Eagle, 1976
Sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube:
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
4 Mar 22
Don’t know if it was used in a movie. It sounds like a movie plot, though, doesn’t it?
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@rebelann (117269)
• El Paso, Texas
5 Mar 22
Well I looked it up and found out that Woody Ally made a film named Take the Money and Run in 1969 but it had nothing to do with the song. K, now I know why I keep gettin mixed up ........... no no no, it's not dementia ........ ummm, is it??
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
5 Mar 22
Good times, good memories with this one Four Walls, thanks.
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
6 Mar 22
Takes me back to being 16. Of course, Steve was part of my first-ever rock concert, too.
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
5 Mar 22
Oh, you’re welcome. This is so “innocent and fun 70s” music for me.
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
5 Mar 22
Well, tell him to send you some money, since y’all are related!
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@NJChicaa (127173)
• United States
4 Mar 22
@FourWalls 
Back in high school (and in college for that matter) I worked at The Gap. A coworker my age and I would do stock together in the back room and we would always listen to Steve Miller Band's greatest hits. I had never heard of them before that.
Back in high school (and in college for that matter) I worked at The Gap. A coworker my age and I would do stock together in the back room and we would always listen to Steve Miller Band's greatest hits. I had never heard of them before that.1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (222806)
• United States
5 Mar 22
Nope. Looks like I'm in the minority.
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
5 Mar 22
Oh, well, thanks for playing. At least it isn’t country. 
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
5 Mar 22
I’m glad you enjoyed it. This was a major hit (the song and the album) in 1976.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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17 Mar 22
It's Miller time! Great tune. Bonnie and Clyde would be proud of this couple (Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue) ...
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@FourWalls (86866)
• United States
5 Mar 22
Glad you like it. Great tune from the 70s.
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