I would like to have a bigger house, a bigger car, if I could
Everybody'd love to drink
Champagne, eat caviar,
yes they would
An d I talked about my baby,
a great big diamond ring
Why are there so many people who will never,
never, never have anything?
Never, never, never, never
Livin' on a shoestring
is the end thing
That's the kind of groovy
world we live in
Livin' on a shoestring is a bad thing
I'd love to buy you a drink
But I gotta stop and think, think, think
Everybody love to go to
Acapulco
Lay down on the beach
and drift away
Everybody love to make love in
Mexico
With the midnight breeze blowing
through the air
Get back to reality, back to work on
Monday I'm a man with a whip,
St.
John
Falcone
Got to pay the rent,
next week's wages spent
The kids ask me for more,
I lose my sanity
Livin' on a shoestring is the end thing
That's the kind of groovin'
world we livin'
Livin' on a shoestring is a bad thing I'd like to buy you a drink,
but I gotta stop and think, think, think, think, think
It's hard times, baby,
you're gonna see straight
It's hard times, baby, you're see straight
I'll see time.