small potatoes

mark knopfler

you can hire and fire

wheel and deal

run your streets with a fist of steel

but you're small potatoes

strictly nickel and dime

nickel and dime

small potatoes

small time

you can raise an army on a town

be the rent collector

come around

yeah

but you're small potatoes

strictly nickel and dime

nickel and dime

small potatoes

small time

if you take your leave of reality

you have to believe in your own publicity

but you get yourself and agent

hire the albert hall

make like humpty dumpty and look down on it all

but you're small potatoes

strictly nickel and dime

nickel and dime

small potatoes

small time

out on the town for your charities

hanging in around with the vips

they say the duke of york took his men

marched them up a hill of beans and down again

he was small potatoes

strictly nickel and dime

nickel and dime

small potatoes

small potatoes

small potatoes

small time