Steve Forbert`s Midsummer Night`s Toast — текст песни (Steve Forbert)

Here`s to all you all you lucky dogs, it`s heads or tails.
Here`s to all you filthy rich, I wish you well.
Here`s to all the pretty women made for cash.
And here`s to dashing daddy`s son he`s such a flash.

Well, I been lookin` and walkin` `round the
sunset square,
Singin` an` talkin` with my friends down there,
sittin` an` lis`nin` with a young man`s ear,
to all the rainbow dreams

Here`s to all the shitty jobs that I despise.
Here`s to two-bit guarantees and other lies.
Here`s to roads of burning tar and hot cement.
Here`s to money in my hand and where it went.

Well, I got my fingers a-tapping on the hard,
stone steps.
I`m waiting for lightning and the rains to fall.
Young lovers are loafin` with their sidewalk smiles
And all their rainbow dreams.

Amy Alice in the Summer
With a sack lunch and a punch card.
See my sister with a drag job.
Man, she feels like she`s a hundred years ago.

Here`s to people living lives that they regret.
Work your fingers to the bone and sink in debt.
Here`s to all those shaky tricks that hustlers try.
You know their easy money is oft` times hard.
They flash a grin an` they wink their eye, well...

I been livin` an` breathin` in the rat trap town.
Tryna get over where the wall breaks down.
Holdin` my head up with my thin tired arms
and all my rainbow dreams