I would like to have a bigger house, a bigger car, if I could
Everybody'd love to drink
And I talked about my baby,
Why are there so many people who will never,
never, never have anything?
Never, never, never, never
That's the kind of groovy
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 make love in
With the midnight breeze blowing
Get back to reality, back to work on
Monday I'm a man with a whip,
The kids ask me for more,
Livin' on a shoestring is the end thing
That's the kind of groovin'
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
you're gonna see straight
It's hard times, baby, you're see straight