We were thinking of our shrinking budget And we could sit and curse and angrily it Or we spend the week-end in Fort Erie having fun And while we're at it make a border run. Yes, we'll be stocking up on little pleasures And then we'll speed the express lane with our treasures This shopping is a lot more fun than one might think In fact, last week we didn't smoke or are duty-free, smokes are duty-free This is gonna be a shopping spree and gasoline, nylon, Neoprine Toilet and soap. Start packing the car, we're today I'm gonna buy a ton of it in old New goods, they're yesterday's news These I'm buying stars and stripes, out these shoes. I want to buy it in a city sells it cheap And find I've gone for a drive, saved me a (saved him a heap!) There's a bold new future high on the And a VCR I kinda had my But does this border shopping have a side, And are we being for a ride? Say, all the fuss, Free Trade's gotta grow But it's a fear of consequence for Canada, And our companies will move to Mexico. But we've got no choice, taxes each year But if spending all our money in the USA, our social programs may just disappear There's lots of merchandise at what a price And Carmel ice-cream will entice, it's that you simply ignore, in Spend Sunday in your Honda fighting crowds in More exhausting than Fonda And you've only got ten minutes more to You to Onandaga, race across to Cheektowaga like your shopping saga's worthy of a spot on Channel 4, News 4 Then driving home you wonder if pillage and your plunder been a massive blunder! All right, let's be frank, we at the bank Free Trade is shutting down, so Moxy propose We trade the GST for Jan and Gretsky And keep our cash in country OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, Univeristy, UI OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, University, UI dropped!