Songfacts®:

• "Financial Advice" is part of the 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys, which tells the story of nine young Black men in Alabama who were accused of rape in what became a landmark civil rights case. In the musical, the song is sung by the Attorney General, who speaks the memorable line, "Alabama justice cannot be bought and sold with Jew money from New York," although it was actually prosecuting attorney Wade Wright who during the retrial said it. (The song's lyricist Fred Ebb and composer John Kander were both Jewish.)
  
  This is a reference not so much to defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz as to the bankrolling of one of the alleged victims, Ruby Bates, who had initially testified that she and her traveling companion Victoria Price had been raped by the Scottsboro Boys. The State was able, quite properly, to make much of her transformation. At the time of the first trial, she and Price had been hoboing dressed like men, now she was appearing in court in fine attire having obviously been well groomed, schooled and taken care of.
  
  Despite the deadly serious subject matter, this is a fairly humorous type of song in the same style as "The Hitler Rap" or "Phil Spector Is Misunderstood." >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England