Working for the Japanese Ray Stevens

I ain't never read the Wall Street Journal
I ain't no Ph.D
The trickle-down theory and the Laffer curve
Are just Greek to me

I'm ignorant about inflation
And the Federal Reserve T-note
I ain't never had a lesson in the Great Depression
But this much I know

We're all working for the Japanese
Little cars and color TVs
Sending all our money overseas
To the Eastern 'sphere

One day we're gonna lose our roots
Wear Oriental jeans and boots
And drink nothing but Kawasaki sake, Honda wine, and Mitsubishi light beer

Chrysler fights for survival
So does General Motors
Ford perseveres with better ideas
And everybody drives Toyotas

Sony owns the Rockefeller Center
And the Hawaiian archipelago
We buy Seikos, Walkmans, TVs, and minivans
And wonder where the money all goes