Tonalité : E major•
Verse 1
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Come everybody, listen while I sing
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This high cost of living is a terrible thing
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E
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Every day you go in to a store
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Prices hit the ceiling just a little bit more
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You buy a piece of bread
and some corned beef hash
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B
All you got left is petty cash
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Look at your dollar now, what do you see?
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It's only half as big as it used to be
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90 cents butter and 90 cents meat
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How in the heck can a poor
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man eat?
Wintertime comes,
there's a Dickens to pay.
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B
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Food goes up in the same old way.
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Cold gettin' higher and the
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kids gotta dress.
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How you gonna do it is
anybody's guess.
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Even the bugs in the kitchen sink.
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B
I pick it in the pantry for food and drink.
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If I don't get clothes and food to boot,
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B
I'll starve to death in my birthday suit.
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Cause 90 cents butter and 90 cents meat.
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How in the heck can a poor man eat?
I tell you folks, you work hard all your life,
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Supportin' your kids and
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sometimes your wife.
Things gettin' higher,
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kinda feelin' sick,
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B
Somethin' gotta happen and it gotta
happen quick.
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Your congressman's workin'
hard every day,
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B
Figurin' out how to cut down your pay.
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E
Gotta give that boy somethin'
to remember
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When you meet him at the polls
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some cold November.
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One ninety cents butter and
ninety cents meat,
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How in the heck can a poor man eat?
You remember the days
when butter and meat
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B
Was the natural food for folks to eat.
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I never had much as I now recall,
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B
But nowadays I'm lucky when I eat at all.
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I'm living in the hope I'll eat someday
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B
Before my body just wastes away.
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If they don't cut the price
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of a piece of cow
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Ain't gonna linger, I'll starve right now.
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With ninety cents butter
and ninety cents meat
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How in the heck can a poor man eat?
And when you go and ask them
the cause of it all
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They hand you a line about ten foot tall
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Moan and groan and
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tear their hair about
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The high cost of being a millionaire
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Take a full -page ad in the
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evening news
They blame it on Negroes
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and Reds and Jews
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Well, I was born in the bushes,
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I was raised in the woods
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They can't sell me that line of goods
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Ninety cents butter and ninety cents peas
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How in the heck can a poor man eat?
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