Big Sister's Clothes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by William the conker 

Cover art for Big Sister's Clothes lyrics by Elvis Costello

As well as being about the Falklands it is also a comment on the proliferation of nuclear arms -

"She is the blue chip that belongs to the big fish" "All little sisters like to try on big sister's clothes Big sister's clothes" "With all the style and finesse of the purchase of armaments"

Countries wanting to build their own nuclear bombs

"Sweat it out for thirty seconds on home improvements" "It's in the stop press before it all starts"

The reality of this proliferation