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Memphis Slim’s [[Lend Me Your Love]] is, like Billy Idol’s [[Rebel Yell]] a fine example of a lyric that correctly, if metaphorically, employes technical legal terminology. Memphis seems to be in the business of [[Borrow|borrowing]] and [[rehypothecating]], or possibly [[Short selling|short-selling]], love. He sings: | Memphis Slim’s [[Lend Me Your Love]] is, like Billy Idol’s [[Rebel Yell]] a fine example of a lyric that correctly, if metaphorically, employes technical legal terminology. Memphis seems to be in the business of [[Borrow|borrowing]] and [[rehypothecating]], or possibly [[Short selling|short-selling]], love. He sings: | ||
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:''Gonna buy your [[love mortgage]] out<br> | :''Gonna buy your [[love mortgage]] out<br> | ||
===Transaction analysis=== | |||
The [[transaction]] seems to be this: | The [[transaction]] seems to be this: | ||
*Baby agrees to lend a quantity (unspecified) of love to Memphis Slim. | *Baby agrees to lend a quantity (unspecified) of love to Memphis Slim. | ||
*As [[collateral]] [[security]] for his obligation to return | *As [[collateral]] [[security]] for his obligation to return her love, Memphis grants Baby a [[mortgage]] over his own love, which for the time being, he is holding on his own balance sheet. | ||
*We surmise that Mr Slim is intending to take Baby’s love and [[reuse]] it elsewhere. | |||
*Seeing as he has at least an equivalent amount of his own love which he is holding subject to a fixed charge, we can only surmise that Baby’s love and Memphis Slim’s love cannot be [[fungible]] (otherwise this would be a transaction without any economic substance. Which would get Memphis Slim’s [[tax]] [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] in a lather.) | |||
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Revision as of 15:37, 13 March 2019
Memphis Slim’s Lend Me Your Love is, like Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell a fine example of a lyric that correctly, if metaphorically, employes technical legal terminology. Memphis seems to be in the business of borrowing and rehypothecating, or possibly short-selling, love. He sings:
- Now lend me your love, little girl, please lend me your love
- Lend me your love, baby, please lend me your love
- I know you hear me keep moanin', moanin' just like Noah's dove
- You got a mortgage on my love, girl, there really is no doubt
- You got a mortgage on my love, girl, there really is no doggone doubt
- But someday I be lucky enough to find another woman,
- Gonna buy your love mortgage out
Transaction analysis
The transaction seems to be this:
- Baby agrees to lend a quantity (unspecified) of love to Memphis Slim.
- As collateral security for his obligation to return her love, Memphis grants Baby a mortgage over his own love, which for the time being, he is holding on his own balance sheet.
- We surmise that Mr Slim is intending to take Baby’s love and reuse it elsewhere.
- Seeing as he has at least an equivalent amount of his own love which he is holding subject to a fixed charge, we can only surmise that Baby’s love and Memphis Slim’s love cannot be fungible (otherwise this would be a transaction without any economic substance. Which would get Memphis Slim’s tax lawyers in a lather.)