Founding member Glenn Frey loved to joke during concerts that his ex-wife referred to the Eagles' big 1975 hit "Take It to the Limit" as "the credit card song." While that ballad is about lost love and loneliness, the following songs use credit card lyrics to get across some outrageous storylines, messages and emotions.

1. Best lyrics for first-time card users: I said: "Just put it on my credit card/ Write that dude up! Ahhh, convenient!"
Song: "Credit Card Song"
Artist: Dick Feller
Why it's outrageous: A good-old country boy orders a "brand new charge-all card." After buying some shirts, a pair of pants and a striped tie, Feller is shocked with a $3,200.42 bill caused by a computer error. Enraged, he takes a knife to the statement, drives his car over it and then returns the statement to the card issuer. The issuer's computer re-processes the beaten-up bill, then issues a $9,000 check to our hero.

2. Best minimum monthly payment lyrics: And thereupon the credit card comes out/ Pays a fortune pays without a doubt/ Pays it on the Never, Never, Never, Never
Song: "Credit Card Song"
Artist: Old Man Pie
Why it's outrageous: Amazingly, this animated video song first went online in 2006, foretelling the global credit meltdown three years later. A cartoon character named Spendalot uses his "Shaft You" platinum card to buy what he can't afford. 

3. Best "Flyin' like an aeroplane" on credit lyrics: Wake up late, honey put on your clothes/ Take your credit card to the liquor store/ That's one for you and two for me by tonight
Song: "Nightrain"
Artist: Guns N' Roses
Why it's outrageous: How could a hard-rock tribute to cheap, high-octane, credit-card-funded California wine not be outrageous? This intoxicating chant also made Guitar World's top 10 drinking songs.

4. Best Valentine's Day lyrics for American Express executives: I couldn't live without my credit card/ I couldn't live without you.
Song: "Without You"
Artist: Blue
Why it's outrageous: Women may swoon when a cutesy boy-band croons "I need you like the air I breathe," and "It'll hit me like a heart attack, if you should ever leave." But wait for the chorus, when the pretty boys reveal they also couldn't survive without cellphones, cars and credit cards.

5. Best divorce court lyrics: Now if six of ya'll went out/ then four of you were really cheap/ Cause only two of you had dinner/ I found your credit card receipt.
Song: "It's Not Right, But It's OK"
Artist: Whitney Houston
Why it's outrageous: This song answers the immortal question of whether a charge-card receipt proving your spouse's affair can drive you crazy. This rousing anthem helped Houston win the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal performance.

6. Best wedding anniversary joke: My wife has a charge card/ That I got her the other day/ I owe her five hundred dollars/ That's just for yesterday.
Song: "Master Charge"
Artist: A. Collins
Why it's outrageous: A sly variation on the "Roses are red" theme, these lyrics vent about a wife's over-the-top spending habits.

7. Best lyrics for Celebrity Rehab candidates: We got sour grapes to fry to limit this credit card life/ We're banking on hits baby it's crazy
Song: "Kandy Life"
Artist: Lady Gaga
Why it's outrageous: Outrageously talented, Gaga sees maxing out a credit card as merely part of celebrity life.

8. Best lyrics for misplaced Canadian nationalism: It was then I knew I'd had enough/ Burned my credit card for fuel/ Headed out to where the pavement/ turns to sand
Song: "Thrasher"
Artist: Neil Young
Why it's outrageous: Diehard Canadian fans swear that the song's credit card lyrics prove Young's yearning to return to the Great White North. Calling northern California home since the mid-seventies, Neil Young actually wrote Thrasher based on his experiences with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

9. Best lyrics for setting ground rules: You can have my credit card/ Baby/ But keep your red hot fingers/ Off my heart/ Lady
Song: "Credit Card Baby"
Artist: Wham!
Why it's outrageous: Money may not buy love, but a credit card does wonders for keeping a manipulative lover around.

10. Best credit-card proposal: Just like Mastercard, baby you are priceless
Song: "Closest Thing to Perfect"
Artist: Chris Echols
Why it's outrageous: Short and sweet, these lyrics use plastic money in an outrageously romantic metaphor.