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FOR JUST ONE DIME (Mark Cohen) Ah, for just one dime, I could call my friend Ted Savage Who lives right down on Franklin by the wide Pacific sea We'd have one fine time, but my plans have all been ravaged A two-bit call is just too rich for me Northward 'cross the Golden Gate old Ted and I would go To hang out with the laid-back folks up in Sausalito Drinking wine and Perrier, hot-tubbing all the day We'd race our roaring Datsun to the Bay (chorus) But how am I to make my call, and ask my friend to roam? Divestiture has driven up the cost of phoning home Now like that little alien I'm sitting all alone By a long-forgotten, lonely, silent phone (chorus) But how am I so different from my friends across this land? In Portland and Chicago, too, it's gotten out of hand We'll have meters on our pay phones soon, the charges clicking past The next rate hike is coming, and it sure won't be the last (chorus) I'm running out of quarters, and we're running out of time From San Francisco to New York, let's fight to keep the dime We'll crack the corporate ramparts, we'll say we're mad as hell At that money-grubbing monster that we used to call Ma Bell (chorus) @money @parody Copyright Mark Cohen 1984) see also NWPASS NEPASS filename[ JUSTDIME MC |
For Just One Dime [Mark Cohen] Northwest Passage |
