Be optimistic!
Don’t you be a grumpy
When the road gets bumpy
Just smile
(Smile and be happy!)

Your troubles can’t be
As bad as all that
When you’re sad as all that
No one loves you

Be optimistic!
Don’t you be a mourner
Brighten up that corner
And smile

Don’t wear a long face
It’s never in style
Be optimistic
And smile

2. SONGS FOR SUBPRIME LENDERS
How Come Your Dog Don’t Bite Nobody But Me?
by Mel Tillis

3. SONGS FOR ECONOMISTS WHO DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING
High Cost of Low Living
by John Steele & James Sloane
or
Dare to be Stupid, “Weird Al” Yankovic

4. SAD SONGS FOR SHORT-SELLERS WHO THOUGHT THEIR NO-MONEY-DOWN A.R.M. WAS A SWEET DEAL
It Ain’t Easy Being Easy
by Roseanne Cash

5. SONGS FOR UNREALISTIC SELLERS AND THE REALTORS® WHO OVERPRICE THEM
Here’s A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
by Travis Tritt

6. SONGS OF THOSE ADVOCATING A FEDERAL BAILOUT
If You Got the Money, Honey, I Got the Time
by Hank Williams

7. SONGS DESCRIBING THE WHOLE, CURSED ECONOMIC MESS
There’s A Tear In My Beer
by Hank Williams
or
Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line
by Buck Owens
or
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers

How about a song for foreclosures (and the people who walk away from them)?
Burning Down the House, Talking Heads

Or a song for people who just want to ignore it all (and hope it goes away)?
Don’t Worry Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin

This is just too much fun for a Friday afternoon…

Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly see.
I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don’t speak out as plain as day?
And, fellow Texans, I’m for progress and the flag- long may it fly.
I’m a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie.

Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don’t-
I’ve come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.

Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare,
I’m for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer.
And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I’ll continue to stand tall.
You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon ya’ll…

Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don’t-
I’ve come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.

1. SONGS YEARNING FOR THE HOUSING MARKETS OF 2004-2006
Glory Days by Bruce Springstein

2. SONGS FOR SUBPRIME LENDERS

3. SONGS FOR ECONOMISTS WHO DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING
Anything by Ray Charles

4. SAD SONGS FOR SHORT-SELLERS WHO THOUGHT THEIR NO-MONEY-DOWN A.R.M. WAS A SWEET DEAL
Our House - by Crosby, Stills, and Nash

5. SONGS FOR UNREALISTIC SELLERS AND THE REALTORS® WHO OVERPRICE THEM
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by the Stones

6. SONGS OF THOSE ADVOCATING A FEDERAL BAILOUT
Baby I Need You - Bread (had to go way back for this classic)

7. SONGS DESCRIBING THE WHOLE, CURSED ECONOMIC MESS
Helter Skelter - The Beatles

If you want it, here it is come and get it
Mmmm, make your mind up fast
If you want it, anytime I can give it
But you better hurry cause it may not last

Did I hear you say that there must be a catch
Will you walk away from a fool and his money
If you want it, here it is come and get it
But you better hurry cause it’s going fast

I was so high I did not recognize
The fire burning in my eyes
The chaos that controlled my mind
Those loans are gone and not to come again
Never to return again
But always in my heart

Those loans have taken their toll on me
They’ve gone goodbye and my account is looking pretty poor
And my job is changing in front of me
I have no choice, cause sub-prime loans are gone forevermore.

When I was a new seller around the table at home

I remember fairly well when buyers and agents would come

I would have to sit right still ’till my agent called real late

My agent always said to me just take a ‘tater and wait

Now ‘taters never did taste real good with chicken on the plate

But I had to eat ‘em just the same

That is why I look so bad and have these puny ways

Those buyers always say to me take an old cold ‘tater and wait.

And when those buyers they would come

To have a look around

I would have to take a ride until my price they found

My agent’s call would always come and that would seal my fate

My agent always said to me just take a ‘tater and wait.

Now ‘taters never did taste real good with chicken on the plate

But I had to eat ‘em just the same

That is why I look so bad and have these puny ways

Those buyers always say to me take an old cold ‘tater and wait.

Well I thought that I would starve to death

Before my house got sold

All that chicken my neighbors would eat

While my days on market got old

I finally got wise and called my agent before it got too late

You overpriced me, move along

And take an old cold ‘tater and wait.

Now taters never did taste real good with chicken on the plate

But I had to eat ‘em just the same

That is why I look so bad and have these puny ways

Those buyers always say to me take an old cold ‘tater and wait.