Banquet

[00:09.04] Come to the dinner gong
[00:11.88] The table is laden high
[00:15.09] Fat bellies and hungry little ones
[00:18.96] Tuck your napkins in
[00:21.68] Take your share
[00:23.86] Some get the gravy
[00:25.89] And some get the gristle
[00:29.63] Some get the marrow bone
[00:32.66] And some get nothing
[00:35.54] Though there's plenty to spare
[00:41.19] I took my share down by the sea
[00:45.60] Paper plates and Javex bottles on the tide
[00:49.60] Seagulls come down
[00:50.51] And they squawk at me
[00:53.43] Down where the water-skiers glide
[01:09.43] Some turn to Jesus
[01:12.52] And some turn to heroin
[01:15.29] Some turn to rambling round
[01:19.40] Looking for a clean sky
[01:21.60] And a drinking stream
[01:24.14] Some watch the paint peel off
[01:27.06] Some watch their kids grow up
[01:29.74] Some watch their stocks and bonds
[01:33.42] Waiting for that big deal
[01:35.93] American Dream
[01:41.31] I took my dream down by the sea
[01:45.47] Yankee yachts and lobster pots and sunshine
[01:48.88] And logs and sails
[01:50.92] And Shell Oil pails
[01:53.30] Dogs and tugs and summertime
[01:56.42] Back in the banquet line
[01:59.24] Angry young people crying
[02:06.05] Who let the greedy in
[02:08.30] And who left the needy out
[02:11.98] Who made this salty soup
[02:15.47] Tell him we're very hungry now
[02:17.74] For a sweeter fare
[02:21.80] In the cookie I read
[02:23.81] "Some get the gravy
[02:26.48] And some get the gristle
[02:30.06] Some get the marrow bone
[02:32.99] And some get nothing
[02:35.74] Though there's plenty to spare"