Spend and Pay

©2008 Dave Clegg 

Come on down to the Big Tent Sale!

Got bad credit? Oh well.

The bank won’t ask and we won’t tell.

(We’re all on commission.)

Say your loan is upside down?

No problem, don’t you frown.

We got the longest terms in town.

And the friendliest disposition.

Sick of that worn-out easy chair?

Shop online while you sit right there.

Rack up debt in your underwear. 

There’s nothin’ to it. 

Now, your scared ‘cause maybe you

Bit off more than you can chew.

(But you sure would like that sofa, too.)

Aw, go ahead and do it!

Spend and pay, spend and pay,

Ain’t that the American way?

Spend and pay a leg and an arm,

Pay until you’ve bought the farm. 

Another restaurant every night.

Use the card if cash is tight.

You have a God-given right 

To satisfy your cravings.

Need a way to shake those blues?

How about a Caribbean cruise?

Come on! What you got to lose? 

(Other than your life savings!)

Spend and pay, spend and pay,

Ain’t that the American way?

Spend and pay a leg and an arm,

Pay until you’ve bought the farm.

Congressman keeps telling me.

Those votes don’t come free.

Gotta bring home the “do re mi. “

To get re-elected.”

I asked him where my paycheck went.

“Sorry, son, it’s all been spent. 

No, we’re not thieves, we’re the Government.”

(Something smells infected!)

Spend and pay, spend and pay,

Ain’t that the American way?

Spend and pay a leg and an arm,

Pay until you’ve bought the farm.

Spend and pay, spend and pay,

Ain’t that the American way?

Spend and pay, pay and spend.

Pay until the bitter end.