Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast

Here's to all you lucky dogs it's heads or tails

Here's to all you filthy rich I wish you well

Here's to all the pretty women made for cash

And here's to dashing daddy's son he's such a flash

Well I been lookin' and walkin' 'round the sunset square

Singin' and talkin' with my friends down there

Sittin' and listenin' with a young man's ear

To all the rainbow dreams

Here's to all the shitty jobs that I despise

Here's to two bit guarantees and other lies

Here's to roads of burning tar and hot cement

Here's to money in my hand and where it went

I got my fingers a tapping on the hard stone steps

I'm waiting for lightning and the rains to fall

Young lovers are loafin' with their sidewalk smiles

And all their rainbow dreams

Amy Alice in the summer

With a sack lunch and a punch card

See my sister with a drag job

Ah man she feels like she's a hundred years ago

Well here's to people living lives that they regret

Work your fingers to the bone and sink in debt

Here's to all the shaky tricks what hustlers try

You know their easy money is oft times hard

They flash a grin and they wink their eye

I I been livin' an' breathin' in the rat trap town

Tryna get over where the wall breaks down

Holdin' my head up with my thin tired arms

And all my rainbow dreams