(Lyrics by Laurel Kenner and Victor Niederhoffer)
Original lyrics and music from the song “Small Talk” in the 1952 musical “Pajama Game” by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
I don’t want to sell stocks short
When there’s been a big decline
I don’t want to sell stocks short
Buy and hold is more my line
Let’s not talk about metals
Or how China’s buying oil
Why don’t we stop all this short talk?
we’ve got something better for our cash to do,
And that takes no shorts at all.
Deficit is getting bigger,
Gold is headed to four figures
Short talk!
The Fed will act to curb inflation
There is too much speculation.
Short talk!
Heard on the news the other day
That rents are nuts out Hamptons way
Wall Street guys agreeing to pay
a three-month rent of six hundred K
Heard on the news the other night
That stocks will fall when money’s tight
And corp’rate rates are getting high and
Fur-ther-more….
Bush is going to bomb Iran
In our next war.
[I don’t want to talk short talk…]
What do you think they charge for gas now?
Got so a buck ain’t worth a damn now.
Real estate is slowing down
The Fed’s not going to fool around.
Dollar’s headed to a crisis
‘Least that is what David Tice says
I don’t want to sell stocks short
When there’s been a big decline
I don’t want to sell stocks short
Buy and hold is more my line
Let’s not talk up the bear side
I don’t think the sky will fall.
Why don’t we stop all this short talk?
we’ve got something better for our cash to do,
And that takes no shorts at all.