Текст песни: Studying Economy + перевод

Well, times are hard, but I’m prepared to try and rattle through it,

And if you come and list to me, I’ll tell you how I do it,

And upon my word, studying economy I live like a lord.

At ten I sally out and go to hear the band play,

Which takes me to eleven, when I promenade the strandway,

At two I reach a coffee shop and read a book till seven,

And half a pint of good-for-ale will last me till eleven,

And upon my word, studying economy I live like a lord.

I can’t abide block ornaments for fear of those small maggots,

So I wait till eight o’clock some days, and patronise the faggots,

And upon my word, studying economy I live like a lord.

Now I’ve told you all the particulars of how I pass my day away,

Through studying economy, I don’t have much to pay-way.

Though I’ve reduced it, I tell it to pease-pudding on a Friday,

And all things considering, why, I get 'em pretty tidy,

And upon my word, studying economy I live like a lord.

Then I sally home and make no row, for fear of Mother Randall,

And into bed, in the dark, because it saves the candle.

Then I pass out in all my clothes, just as the day is dawning,

And leave some gin beside the bed for breakfast in the morning,

And upon my word, studying economy I live like a lord.

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