(Dave) As a young boy Michael his mother cook, by her apron strings the whole day long. Knife in hand, her eyes on the recipe book salivate as she sang out this song: (funny old voice) Cut the onions, the dicing. up Mike, it's the right thing. Chop the parsnip for a dish In the small you'll be a big fish. In the small pond be a big fish. (Mike) When in our lad made some special friends, him from subversives and their kind. Swirled within a world of and dividends. And the song sang was etched upon his mind: (All) Cut the hair off the sleeping. Listen up Mike, it's the thing. Chop the off the freakish. In the pond you'll be a big fish. In the small you'll be a big fish. (Murray) Thirty-five, a drive possessed him To be the greatest in North Bay. Sometimes a fear of near obsessed him. But then he'd hear the golfer's say: (funny voice) Cut the on your back swing. Listen up Mike, it's the thing. Chop the ball with a big swish. In the small pond be a big fish. In the small you'll be a big fish. (Jian) Now he's breaking bread with of industry. The in the autumn of his years. He with Messianical rabidity. When he echoes words he hears the cheers: (All) Cut the welfare, and housing. Listen up Mike, it's the thing. Chop the health-care, you'll get wish. In the small pond be a big fish Cut the and the schooling. Listen up Mike, the right-wing. the free-lunch for the poorish. In the small you'll be a big fish. In the pond you'll be a big fish. In the pond you'll be a big fish. From the - We have a brand new ultra right-wing premier of ontario, but only would that our loving leader actually revels in the pain, misery, and that comes as a product of his neo-conservative policies. Mike is simply doing the thing'.