The Sabre Dance

We were thinking of our shrinking Fruvous budget

And we could sit and curse and angrily begrude it

Or we could spend the week-end in Fort Erie having fun

And while we're at it make a speedy border run.

Yes, we'll be stocking up on simple little pleasures

And then we'll speed through the express lane with our treasures

This border shopping is a lot more fun than one might think

In fact, until last week we didn't smoke or

Drinks are duty-free, smokes are duty-free

This is gonna be quite a shopping spree

Toys and gasoline, nylon, Neoprine

Toilet paper and soap.

Start packing the car, we're leaving today

I'm gonna buy a ton of it in old New York

Canadian goods, they're yesterday's news

These days I'm buying stars and stripes,

Check out these shoes.

I want to buy it in a city that sells it cheap

And find I've gone for a drive, saved me a heap (saved him a heap!)

There's a bold new future high on the horizon

And a VCR I kinda had my eyes'n

But does this border shopping have a darker side,

And are we being taken for a ride?

Say, what's all the fuss, Free Trade's gotta grow

But it's a fear of fiscal consequence for Canada,

And that our companies will move to Mexico.

But we've got no choice, more taxes each year

But if we're spending all our money in the USA,

Then our social programs may just disappear

There's lots of merchandise at super-duper what a price

And Carmel ice-cream will entice, it's shopping that you simply ignore,

in store

Spend Sunday in your Honda fighting crowds in Townawanda

More exhausting than Jane Fonda

And you've only got ten minutes more to score

You rush to Onandaga, race across to Cheektowaga

Feeling like your shopping saga's worthy of a spot on Channel 4, News 4

Then driving home you wonder if your pillage and your plunder

Hasn't been a massive blunder!

All right, let's be frank, we lose at the bank

Free Trade is shutting business down, so Moxy propose

We trade the GST for Jan and Wayne Gretsky

And keep our cash in that country

OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, Univeristy, UI subsidy

OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, University, UI subsidy dropped!