Well, I wake up early one morning And I went down to Splendidstown To look for a friend of mine Who was going to Seminar Yard And we started to have a little talk About everything, about the situation And this is what he said Famine, famine, famine, famine on the land Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high It's really so high, high, high, sky Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high So I went down to One Harbor To look for my brother John To ask him how his life And things, and things, and things Oh, we started to have a little talk About everything, about the situation And this is what he said Famine, famine, famine, famine on the land Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high It's really so high, high, high, sky Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high So I went down to Clarendon To look for my family To a little street called Trade Night Is where I was born Oh, and we started to have a little talk Together, together, about the situation And this is what they said They told me famine, famine, famine, famine on the land Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high It's really so high, high, high, sky Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high Oh, and we started to have a little talk Together, together, about the situation And this is what they said They told me famine, famine, famine, famine on the land Because the cost of living is getting so high, high, high It's really so high, high, high It's really so high, high, high It's really so high, high, high *