The Sabre Dance Lyrics - Moxy Fruvous

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!