Powerball Fever: If you don't win, you can vent your frustrations with a song called "Big Bucks"

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Feb. 11, 2015 - PRLog -- THE POWERBALL JACKPOT IS ALREADY AT 500 MILLION DOLLARS...

AND IF YOU DON’T WIN...AT LEAST YOU CAN VENT SOME OF YOUR FRUSTRATIONS WITH A SONG ABOUT MONEY CALLED “BIG BUCKS”

If you are reading this story, chances are you didn’t win the most recent Powerball jackpot, and neither did I.

And in advance of the next Powerball drawing, where the jackpot is already at 500 million dollars...(if you don’t win it again)... at least you can vent some of your frustrations with a song about money called “Big Bucks.”

You can treat yourself to a FREE clip of “Big Bucks” at www.barrows.com/music.html.

“There is also a link on that page where you can download the song for 99 cents on iTunes...but I understand that you might want to put that 99 cents toward another Powerball ticket, says Robert Barrows (co-author of the song), so at least you can vent some of your frustrations by tuning in for the free clip.”

“Big Bucks” is a song about the hope of making big money, and with the Powerball jackpot already at half a billion dollars, “Big Bucks” could become the theme song for all of us who don’t win,” says Barrows.

“And If I do win, I’ll sing it too” says Barrows, I was hoping to make big bucks from it all along.”

Here is some background and information on the song and its airplay:

Barrows originally wrote Big Bucks as a poem in the mid 1980s after some second-string second baseman, who seldom hit over .200, got a multi-million dollar deal just for playing baseball.

Then, in 1998, Barrows teamed up with a musician named Gary Warren, of Sacramento, California, and they co-wrote the song version of “Big Bucks.”

The song was originally released in 1999 to radio stations that played rap and hip-hop. “Big Bucks” and another song on the CD called “Run For Office,” a satire on politics, both got some airplay.

Some of the lyrics about the hope of making big money go like this:

“It don’t take brains. It don’t take brawn. I only hope it don’t take too long.”

Some of the other lyrics about the frustration about not making big money go like this:

“How do they get in those jobs with the big bucks? How did they get there? Who and or what did they know?”

The song goes on in this vein and then it ends with the lines:

“In the game of money, competition is tough...Keep going for your dreams until you find Big Bucks, Big Bucks.”

Followed by... “I need money... Big Bucks...I need money.”

“Don’t we all?” says Barrows. “Too bad I can’t play football. Too bad I can’t hit home runs. Too bad I don’t have one of those jobs where you get millions of dollars just for getting fired.”

“Maybe I’ll make my millions if millions of people download these songs?” he adds.

Another poem that Barrows would like to be able to turn into a song is a poem he wrote called “It used to be Made in America.”

It used to be Made in America is about the loss of jobs and the consequences of the outsourcing of manufacturing to other countries. You can see the poem online at www.itusedtobemadeinamerica.com

In addition to doing advertising and songwriting, Barrows is also an inventor, author and sculptor.

The invention is a video tombstone called the Video Enhanced Gravemarker (U.S. Patent #7,089,495) www.barrows.com/invention.html, and he is also the author of a book called “Cemetery of Lies,” www.barrows.com/novel.html.

You can see some of his sculpture at www.barrows.com/gallery.html.

For more information about “Big Bucks,” and to arrange an interview with Robert Barrows, contact Robert Barrows at R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising and Public Relations in San Mateo, California at 650-344-4405.

Now, before you do anything else today, have you got a Powerball ticket?

And, if you are writing about this after the drawing and you didn’t win...at least you can vent your frustrations with a song about money called “Big Bucks.”

You can hear a free clip of “Big Bucks” at www.barrows.com/music.html and you can also download the song for 99 cents on iTunes at:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-bucks-single/id472366543

For more information, call Robert Barrows at 650-344-4405.