a 1927 popular song
words by Lorenz Hart
music by Richard Rodgers
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- On the first of May
It is moving day
Spring is here, so blow your job
Throw your job away
Now’s the time to trust
To your wanderlust
In the city’s dust you wait
Must you wait? Just you wait
Refrain
In a mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together
While you love your lover
Let blue skies be your coverlet
When it rains we’ll laugh at the weather
And if you’re good I’ll search for wood
So you can cook while I stand looking
Beans could get no keener
Reception in a beanery
Bless our mountain greenery home
- Simple cooking means
More than French cuisines
I’ve a banquet planned which is
Sandwiches and beans
Coffee’s just as grand
With a little sand
Eat and you’ll grow fatter, boy
S’matter, boy? ‘Atta boy
Refrain
In a mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together
How we love sequestering
Where no pests are pestering
No, dear, mama holds us in tether
Mosquitos here won’t bite you, dear
I’ll let them sting me on the finger
We could find no cleaner
Retreat from life’s machinery
Than our mountain greenery home
Patter
When the world was young
Old Father Adam with sin would grapple
So we’re entitled to just one apple
I mean to make applesauce
Underneath the bough
We’ll learn a lesson from Mister Omar
Beneath the eyes of no Pa and no Ma
Old Lady Nature is boss
Washing dishes, catching fishes
In the running stream
We’ll curse the smell a’ Citronella
Even when we dream
Head upon the ground
Your downey pillow is just a boulder
I’ll have new dimples before I’m older
But life is peaches and cream
And if you’re good I’ll search for wood
So you can cook while I stand looking
Beans could get no keener
Reception in a beanery
Bless our mountain greenery home
Sung here by Fred Feild: