We were thinking of our shrinking budget And we could sit and and angrily begrude it Or we spend the week-end in Fort Erie having fun And while at it make a speedy border run. Yes, we'll be stocking up on little pleasures And we'll speed through the express lane with our treasures This border shopping is a lot more fun one might think In fact, until last week we smoke or Drinks are duty-free, smokes are is gonna be quite a shopping spree Toys and gasoline, nylon, Toilet and soap. packing the car, we're leaving today I'm gonna buy a ton of it in old New goods, they're yesterday's news These days I'm stars and stripes, out these shoes. I want to buy it in a city that it cheap And find I've for a drive, saved me a heap (saved him a heap!) There's a bold new future high on the And a VCR I kinda had my But does border shopping have a darker side, And are we taken for a ride? Say, all the fuss, Free Trade's gotta grow But it's a of fiscal consequence for Canada, And that our companies move to Mexico. But got no choice, more taxes each year But if we're spending all our in the USA, Then our social may just disappear There's of merchandise at super-duper what a price And ice-cream will entice, it's shopping that you simply ignore, in Spend Sunday in your fighting crowds in Townawanda exhausting than Jane Fonda And you've only got ten minutes more to You to Onandaga, race across to Cheektowaga Feeling like your shopping saga's worthy of a spot on Channel 4, 4 Then driving home you if your 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 Wayne And our cash in that country OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, Univeristy, UI OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, University, UI dropped!