MOUNTAIN GREENERY
From the Broadway musical "Garrick Gaieties" (1926)
(Richard Rogers / Lorenz Hart)
Roger Wolf Kahn & His Orch. - 1926
Perry Como & Allyn Ann McLerie
(featured in the film "Words And Music) - 1948
Sylvia Syms - 1952
Lee Wiley - 1954
Mel Tormé - 1955
Bing Crosby - 1956
Patti Page - 1956
Ella Fitzgerald - 1956
Barbara Lea - 1957
The Supremes - 1967
Also recorded by: Larry Adler; Tony Bennett; Barbara King;
Ruby Braff; Barbara Carroll; Rosemary Clooney; Hal Mooney;
Anson Weeks; Matt Dennis; Dave Pell; The Village Stompers;
Larry Elgart; Frank Crumit; Eileen Farrell; Betty Johnson;
Jerry Gray & His Band Of The Day; Morgana King; Ted Heath;
Jackie & Roy; Jane Jarvis; Barney Kessel; Rebecca Kilgore;
King & Moore; Bobby Troup; Charles Tichenor; Milton Berle;
Red Norvo; Peter Nero: .................. and many others.
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 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
`smatter boy? Huh, huh! `Atta boy.
In a mountain greenery,
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together.
How-how-how-how-how we 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!
Beans could get no keener reception in a beanery
Bless our mountain greenery,
Far from life's machinery
Bless our mountain greenery home!
(Contributed by Bill Huntley - January 2005)
