A Dollar Short of Happy - Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets

A dollar short of happy

Can I get one from you?

A dollar short on Christmas

Just a smile won’t do

Standing on the corner with my dog named Blue

She don’t know it’s Christmas

So it’s down to you

City sidewalks

Busy sidewalks

Turn a darker gray

Than any Russian playwright would allow

Although it’s been said

Many times, many ways

I’m a dollar short of happy now

You pulled up to the light

The phone up to your ear

The deal has fallen through

Your job has gone

An unfamiliar look of pain

On your face then did appear

How you gonna tell the folks at home?

No more private schools

Or exercise machines

No more crazy nannies getting high in the S.U.V

Meet me on the corner

We’ll get along somehow

A dollar short of happy now

Meet me on the corner

We’ll rub along somehow

A dollar short of happy now