1st verse:]

What's that you say?

No work today?

Done lost your job?

Where is your pay?

Been shooting dice?

That's very nice

Needn't apologize, I'm cold as ice

Pack up your clothes

Lord only knows

You've been the cause of my troubles and woes

Don't ask me why

Too late to cry

Just bid yourself goodbye



[chorus:]

A friend in need is a friend indeed

That's just the kind of friend I've been to you

When poverty smiled down on thee

I hung around and stuck like glue

It's a long long lane that has no turn

You can never tell your finish when you start

But when you find you can't make both ends meet

Then the best of friends must part



[2nd verse:]

Don't talk of love

Just like a dove

Can't eat the stars

That shine above

That stuff don't go

You'd better blow

Can't buy a meal with that lovin' you know

I know it's hard

On your old pard

But I can't help that you played your last card

Don't hesitate

Evaporate

Hunt up another mate