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Champagne Habits Lyrics
Son, you got champagne habits on a beer salary –
Mama keeps tellin’ me
Judgin’ from the gifts you buy your wife
Musta been a sultan in your last life –
You worry me with your champagne habits on a beer salary.
Better get your head out the clouds
Find out what a dollar’s worth
Down on earth
Takin’ from Peter to pay off Paul
Aw, son, you’re headed for a fall
Boy, you worry me
With your champagne habits on that beer salary.
Mama, now don’t be worried
I’ll be rollin’ in dough someday –
I always say
When I become a millionaire
I’ll buy you a mansion anywhere
So, don’t worry about me
With my champagne habits on my beer salary.
Mama, don’t worry ‘bout me
I was born lucky as a man can be.
Friends call me dapper
‘Cos I do love my spats an’ my fancy hats
I don’t mind to ride the bus
But, I must say, a limo’s much less fuss
Talkin’ ‘bout champagne habits on a beer salary.
Son, you got champagne habits on a beer salary
Mama keeps tellin’ me
Spendin’ cash wherever you please
You act like money grows on trees
With your champagne habits on a beer salary.
An’ I say, mama don’t worry ‘bout me
I was born lucky as a man can be
With my champagne habits on my beer salary.
Mama keeps tellin’ me
Judgin’ from the gifts you buy your wife
Musta been a sultan in your last life –
You worry me with your champagne habits on a beer salary.
Find out what a dollar’s worth
Down on earth
Takin’ from Peter to pay off Paul
Aw, son, you’re headed for a fall
Boy, you worry me
With your champagne habits on that beer salary.
I’ll be rollin’ in dough someday –
I always say
When I become a millionaire
I’ll buy you a mansion anywhere
So, don’t worry about me
With my champagne habits on my beer salary.
I was born lucky as a man can be.
‘Cos I do love my spats an’ my fancy hats
I don’t mind to ride the bus
But, I must say, a limo’s much less fuss
Talkin’ ‘bout champagne habits on a beer salary.
Mama keeps tellin’ me
Spendin’ cash wherever you please
You act like money grows on trees
With your champagne habits on a beer salary.
I was born lucky as a man can be
With my champagne habits on my beer salary.
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Only Mr Bibb could write a song like this with his tongue in cheek humour and a tinge of attack at the materialistic western world we live in. Champagne and beer are at the opposite ends of the alcohol spectrum with their cost but not necessarily their value. The song is a conversation between a mother and her son as each offer views on a lifestyle which is basically living beyond ones means. Consumerism and more stuff do not satisfy the heart of man and can actually contribute to more anxiety in a life. Lovely light hearted song which lifts the spirit.
Matthew 6:19-21 offers good advice, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."