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
hangingin 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