Profiteering Blues

I'm feeling sad
I'm feeling bad
I went to see my doctor today
The doctor said
"Your troubles gone to your head
And you must take my advice right away
I know just what's wrong with you

Medicine will never do
I've had a lot of patients with the same complaint
When he told me what was wrong
I thought that I would faint"

I've got the profiteering blues
I've got the profiteering blues
High prices make me sick
For all my clothes are worn through
I'll have to dress like Adam
But what else can I do
I've got the profiteering blues

I can't afford to buy a pair of shoes
Every time I get a raise
I laugh with glee
Then along comes my landlord
And takes it from me
It seems the more I make
The more they take
I've got the profiteering blues

Do you remember when prices were low?
Say, that seems so long, long ago
Gone are the days when three lunches went with beer
Those memories just fill my eyes with tears
Where are the steaks that cost a quarter?
Nobody knows, nobody knows

And where is all the pure milk without the water?
Oh, that was when we were so young
When ten bucks a week was big pay

But that pay today
Don't go a very long way

You'd be surprised
Take your girl to a show
And how those ten bucks will go
You'd be surprised

Do you remember the suits
With two pairs of pants
For fifteen bucks?
I'll say you do
Now you're in luck
If you get just the coat
Without the pants
For fifteen bucks
You know that's true

Underwear, underwear

You're so high
Soon we'll have to go bare

King Solomon had a thousand wives
I've heard them say
Oh what a chance he'd have
To keep those women today

It's no joke
We're all dead broke
I've got the profiteering blues!