Introduction
This song by Rogers and Hart has quite a long history and there are several different versions. See the rather brief Wikipedia article. Here I am giving the version that I know and sing to myself from time to time. I guess I learnt it from listening to one of Mel Tormé's recordings.
Mountain Greenery
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
In our 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
'Smatter boy, attaboy
In our mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together
How we'll love sequestering
Where no pests are pestering
No dear momma holds us in tether
Mosquitoes 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
Bless our mountain greenery
Far from life's machinery
Bless our mountain greenery home
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