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