We were of our shrinking Fruvous budget And we could sit and curse and begrude it Or we could spend the week-end in Fort Erie fun And while at it make a speedy border run. Yes, we'll be up on simple little pleasures And then we'll 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 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, leaving today I'm buy a ton of it in old New York Canadian goods, yesterday's news These days I'm buying and stripes, out these shoes. I want to buy it in a that sells it cheap And find I've gone for a drive, me a heap (saved him a heap!) There's a bold new future high on the And a VCR I kinda had my But this border shopping have a darker side, And are we taken for a ride? Say, what's all the fuss, Free gotta grow But it's a fear of fiscal for Canada, And that our companies will to Mexico. But we've got no choice, more each year But if we're spending all our in the USA, Then our social programs may disappear There's of merchandise at super-duper what a price And Carmel ice-cream will entice, shopping that you simply ignore, in Spend Sunday in your Honda fighting crowds in More exhausting Jane Fonda And you've only got ten minutes more to You to Onandaga, race across to Cheektowaga Feeling your shopping saga's worthy of a spot on Channel 4, News 4 Then home you wonder if your pillage and your plunder Hasn't a massive blunder! All right, let's be frank, we lose at the Trade is shutting business 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!