Ninety Cents Butter Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Come everybody, listen while I sin[G]g
This high cost of living is a [A]terrible thing
[D]Eve[G]ry day you go in [D]to a sto[G]re
Prices hit the [A]ceiling just a little bit more
You buy a piece of [D]bread
and some corned beef hash
All [G]you got left [A]is petty cash
[G]Look at your dollar now, what do you see?
It's only [A]half as big as it used to be
[D]90 cents butter and 90 cents meat
How in the heck can [A]a poor
man [D]eat?
Wintertime comes,
there's a Dickens to pay.
[G]Food goes up in the [A]same old [D]way.
[G]Cold gettin' higher and the
[D]kids gotta dress.
[A]How you gonna do it is
anybody's guess.
[D]Even the bugs in the kitchen sink.
I [G]pick it in the pantry for [A]food and drink.
If I [G]don't get clothes and [D]food to boot,
I'll [G]starve to death [A]in my birthday suit.
Cause [D]90 cents butter and 90 cents meat.
How in the heck can a [A]poor man [D]eat?
I tell you folks, you work hard all your life,
Sup[G]portin' your kids and
some[A]times your [G]wife.
Things gettin' higher,
[D]kinda feelin' sick,
[G]Somethin' gotta [A]happen and it gotta
happen quick.
[D]Your congressman's workin'
hard every day,
[G]Figurin' out how to cut [A]down your pay.
[G]Gotta give that boy som[D]ethin'
to remember
When you [G]meet him at the polls
some [A]cold November.
One [D]ninety cents butter and
ninety cents meat,
How in the heck can a [A]poor man [D]eat?
You remember the days
when butter and meat
Was the [G]natural food for folk[A]s to eat.
[D]I nev[G]er had much as I now[D] recall,
But [G]nowadays I'm [A]lucky when I eat at all.
I'm [D]living in the hope I'll eat someday
Before [G]my body just [A]wastes away.
[D]If they don[G]'t cut the price
of a [D]piece of cow
[A]Ain't gonna linger, I'll starve right now.
With ninety cents [D]butter
and ninety cents meat
How in the heck can a [A]poor man [D]eat?
And when you go and ask them
the cause of it all
They [G]hand you a line about [A]ten foot tall
[D]Moa[G]n and groan and
[D]tear their hair about
The [A]high cost of being a millionaire
Take [D]a full -page ad in the
evening [G]news
They blame it on Negroes
and [A]Reds and Jew[D]s
Well, I was [G]born in the bushes,
I was [D]raised in the woods
They [G]can't sell [D]me that [A]line of goods
[D]Ninety cents butter and ninety cents peas
How in the heck can [A]a poor man [D]eat?