We were thinking of our shrinking Fruvous And we sit and curse and angrily begrude it Or we could spend the week-end in Fort Erie fun And while we're at it make a border run. Yes, we'll be up on simple little pleasures And we'll speed through the express lane with our treasures border shopping is a lot more fun than one might think In fact, until week we didn't smoke or Drinks are duty-free, smokes are is gonna be quite a shopping spree Toys and gasoline, nylon, paper and soap. Start the car, we're leaving today I'm gonna buy a ton of it in old New Canadian goods, they're news These I'm buying stars and stripes, out these shoes. I to buy it in a city that sells it cheap And find I've for a drive, saved me a heap (saved him a heap!) There's a new future high on the horizon And a VCR I kinda had my But this border shopping have a darker side, And are we being 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 will to Mexico. But we've got no choice, more taxes year But if spending all our money in the USA, our social programs may just disappear There's lots of merchandise at super-duper what a And Carmel ice-cream will entice, it's shopping you simply ignore, in Sunday in your Honda fighting crowds in Townawanda More exhausting than Jane 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 on Channel 4, News 4 Then home you wonder if your pillage and your plunder Hasn't been a blunder! All right, let's be frank, we at the bank Free Trade is business down, so Moxy propose We trade the GST for Jan and Gretsky And our cash in that country OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, Univeristy, UI OHIP, Medicare, Welfare, we can share, University, UI dropped!