Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast Lyrics - Steve Forbert

Here's to all you, 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' an' talkin' with my friends down there 

Sittin' an' 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 

And here's to money in my hand and where it went 

I, I got my fingers a-tapping on the hard stone steps 

I'm waiting for lightning and the rains to fall 

Young lovers eloping 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 

Oh 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 those shaky tricks what hustlers try 

You know their easy money is oft' times hard 

You know they flash a grin an' 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, yeah