We Won't Survive (The ABN AMRO Merger Song)
More in BUSINESS NEWS
back-up- Click Here To Register For Free News E-Mail Alerts
- Who's The Most Popular Member Of Staff In The Financial Markets ?
- Jamie Dimon Says Dirty Short Sellers Should Be Locked Up
- Being Made Redundant ? We Have Firms Who Might Want To Hire You
- Bonuses - Bankers Want Cash Not Stock
- I Didn't Make Goldman Partner - Your Comments
- And The Winners of Our Stock Market Challenge Are...
- Probably The Best FX Dealer In The World - Not
- How To Look Busy And Keep From Getting Fired
- Best Graduate Recruitment & Development Programme Poll
- Goldman Didn't Make Me A Partner & My Career Was Over
- Some Citi Staff May Get Stay Of Execution
- I Survived 7/7 - And I'm Still Afraid
- Trader Leaves After Mispricing Of Credit Derivatives Uncovered
- There Is No Chauvinist Conspiracy Against Women
- M&A H1 2008 - Which Firm Has Done Well Where
- European M&A League Table - H1 2008
- Is Your Firm 'In Vogue' In This Credit Crunched World ? (Updated)
- Firms Now Focus On Axing European Staff
- UBS Says It's Bad, But It Could Be Worse
- Hedgie Tried To Kill Himself By Eating His Fentanyl Patches
- What Do You Think Of Cityboy's Latest Exploits (At Glastonbury) ?
- Global Debt League Tables H1 2008
- Global Equity & Equity-Related League Tables
- Mergermarket's League Table of Legal Advisers to Global M&A
- Our Top 30 Stories Of All Time
- The Year's Most Talked About 'Office' Video (Back By Popular Demand)
- Banker Trashes Office After Learning Of Pay Cut (Back By Popular Demand)
- Top Firm Awards Mid-Year Bonus Advances In Move To Retain Key Staff
- Things Likely To Get Tougher - And Here's Why
- Mother Puts Foot Down As Hedge Fund Rogue Gives Himself Up
- Worldwide M&A League Tables - How's Your Firm Doing This Year ?
- Grasso, Moody's, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Unicredit
- Under Fire CEO Said To Have Bagged Almost Half-A-Billion
- Analyst Says Morgan Stanley May Have Been Better Off Under Purcell
- UBS Hits New Low
- Market Gossip - Cast Offs, Days Off, Silly Banker
- Vikram's Been Working Weekends Again
- UBS Said To Be Considering Unit Sale
- Decision Time At Merrill Lynch
- Jobs, Job Cuts & Bonus News
- I Lay Awake At Night Worrying About Those E-Mails
- Barclays, Deutsche, Dresdner, Fortis, Lehman, Morgan Stanley, RBS
- How Old Is Your Firm ? (Updated)
- Layoffs - The Definitive Job Loss League Table (Updated)
- Job Losses League Table (Updated)
- Featured Recruiter - Finance Professionals City
- Women Aren't Made To Get To The Top
- Goldman Sneezed
- Nak.d Banker Fires Secretary
Click Here to E-Mail this article to a Friend >>
'First we were afraid,
Now we're petrified
Our board knew it was all over
When that damn letter did arrive
They spent far too many days
Pondering what they were doing wrong
They took too long,
Now ABN will soon be gone
And so we'll merge
With Barclays Bank
And all because
Our share price stank
I should have changed my job before,
ABN won't restructure any more
If I'd known for just one second
That we might be heading out the door
As I prepare, to go on my way,
CEO Groenink, surely he can't stay
At least he'll get a lucrative 'goodbye',
We'll just have our P45s, and cry
Oh no, oh me oh my,
We won't survive
Our leaders, they did nothing for far too long,
The strategy proved worthless and went badly wrong
Some say our board didn't know what to do,
Others claim they really didn't have a clue
Oh no, oh me oh my,
We won't survive
With all the plans they had
We still fell apart
Now it's over to Bob Diamond
And his ice-cold heart
I'll spend a few more days feeling sorry for myself,
I'll probably cry, I just can't hold my head up high
I can't see me,
Somewhere new
Over at BarCap,
Feeling blue
I'm just a little person caught up in this merger game,
I did MY job - so I'm really not much to blame
And now I'm saving all my money,
'coz things will never be the same
Oh no, oh me oh my
We won't survive'
