From the recording Everybody's Somebody Else's Weirdo
Lyrics
Get Some Starch in Your Collar
When your boss has canned you
When you car breaks down
When you get a call in the middle of the night
That your kid’s in jail downtown
Don’t start going lala
Here’s what you must do
Just get some starch in your collar
And put a little shine on your shoes
If life’s getting harder
And trouble comes in mounds
You can’t get a job
And you can’t get love
And your checks all tend to bounce
Don’t start shooting people
You still got freedom to lose
Just get some starch in your collar
And put a little shine on your shoes
Well I see your faces and I know you’re thinking
What a shallow platitude
But it’s like our friend Donald Trump likes to say (you’re fired)
Success is all a matter of attitude.
(Instrumental Break)
Listen to my advice
Please take it to heart
If you’re living in a dumpster
And eatin catfood
Just remember, life is art
Don’t succumb to madness
Don’t go getting the blues
Just get some starch in your collar and put a little shine on your shoes
(Just use your food stamps)
Put a little shine in your shoes.
Copyright Marilyn Rucker Norrod