Many of the lyrics on this song are the same as "Love For Tender" on "Get Happy". I consider that a better song. "Clean Money" was released on the "Taking Liberties" album, which was a collection of outtakes and demos, (even so, it was just about as good as the early EC studio albums). So I think "Clean Money" is probably an early version of a song that he reworked later.
As for the meaning of the song, I think the lyrics were a bunch of lines with some clever wordplay about money. They don't really hang together well. But it has a good and fast aggressive beat of its own that got completely changed, so they are truly different songs.
Many of the lyrics on this song are the same as "Love For Tender" on "Get Happy". I consider that a better song. "Clean Money" was released on the "Taking Liberties" album, which was a collection of outtakes and demos, (even so, it was just about as good as the early EC studio albums). So I think "Clean Money" is probably an early version of a song that he reworked later.
As for the meaning of the song, I think the lyrics were a bunch of lines with some clever wordplay about money. They don't really hang together well. But it has a good and fast aggressive beat of its own that got completely changed, so they are truly different songs.