What are the lyrics to I can't do the sum from babes in toyland?

Answer 1

Bills, bills, bills.

The price of milk of eggs and bread are rising every day.

Now with our bank book in the red, these bills are hard to pay.

If we stopped buying chocolate cake, and lived green string beans,

Exactly how much would it take to live within our means?

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Put down beans and cross out cake. Let me see. Oh dear me.

Add subtract and multiply 'til you're overcome.

This is much too hard fo us. We can't do the sum.

The stove and rugs and furniture will soon be repossessed.

This makes me feel quite insecure and mentally depressed.

Would we be better off somehow, by living in a tent?

How can I pay the mortgage now and save the 6 percent?

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Picture us inside a tent- beastly poor, insecure

We must save the 6 percent, six perc6 times x, how complex.

Numbers always fix our brain. Why are we so dumb?

This is much too hard for us. We can't do the sum.

I'm not a great financial whiz, of that there is no doubt.

The outcome of our income is our income's all gone out.

If we walk on our hands with care, instead of on our feet,

would what we save on shoe repair suffice to make end's meat?

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Walking on our hands with care off our meat, make end's meat.

Saving on our shoe repair, leaving holes in our soles

What should we be adding to or subtracting from?

This is much too hard for me, I can't do the sum.

Looks like there's no hope for me. I can't get out of debt.

If I marry Barnaby, that's the end. Why pretend?

Am I doing right or wrong? My heart feels so numb.

No use trying any more. I can't do the sum…