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Old Fashioned Values - Seven and a Half Cents - SteveG - 07-01-2025 The union at Sleep Tite Sleepwear is negotiating for a seven and a half cents an hour raise in The Pajama Game 1955 (70 years ago) Seven-And-A-Half Cents Lyrics I figured it out I figured it out With a pencil and a pad I figured it out! Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot, Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing! But give it to me every hour, Forty hours every week, And that's enough for me to be living like a king! I figured it out He figured it out! I figured it out He figured it out! With a pencil and a pad I figured it out! Only five years from today! Only five years from today! I can see it all before me! Only five years from today! Five years! Let's see..thats 260 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $852.74! That's enough for me to get An automatic washing machine, A years supply of gasoline, Carpeting for the living room, A vacuum instead of a blasted broom, Not to mention a forty inch television set! (Chorus) So! Although! Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot, Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing! But give it to me every hour, Forty hours every week, And that's enough for me to be living like a king! Only ten years from today, Only ten years from today, I can see it, clear as daylight, Only ten years from today! Ten years! Let's see..thats 520 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $1705.48! That's enough for me to buy A trip to France across the seas, A motorboat and water skis, Maybe even a foreign car, A charge account at the corner bar, Not to mention a scrabble board with letters made of gold! Only twenty years from today Twenty years! Let's see..thats 1040 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $3411.96! Wow! That's enough for me to be A sultan in a taj mahal In every room a different doll! I'll have myself a buying spree, I'll buy a pajama factory, Then I could end up having old man Hasler work for me! (Chorus) So! Although! Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot, Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing! But give it to me every hour, Forty hours every week, And that's enough for me to be living like a king! |