Farming chords by
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye

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Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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MERE
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Here's a bit of news that's
quite a shocker,
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proving Mother Nature still has charm.
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Quoting Mr. Charlie Nickerbocker,
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get in the swim, and buy a farm.
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Acres of alfalfa, fields of clover,
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suddenly enchant our top foo's foo.
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So the moment all this row is over
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What say if we go hay -see -toe
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for farming?
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That's the passion for me
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That's the passion
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of the great celebrities of today
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Kit Cornell is shellin' peas
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Lady Mendel's climbin' trees
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Dear Mae West is at her best
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in the hay
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Singing while they're raking,
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bringing
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Home the bacon makes them feel
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more glamorous and more gay
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They tell me cows when
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they're feeling milky
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All give cream when
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they're milked by Wilkie
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It's so charming they all say
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Oh, farming, that's the fashion,
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farming
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That's the fashion
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of the great celebrities
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of today, yeah, yeah
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Five o 'clock, the cock is crowing,
though the frost is on the pumpkin
Back to sleep, you can't be going
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if you want to be a bumpkin
It's so chic for look -a -peek
to take your picture with the Guernsey
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In the wilds of old Connecticut,
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or possibly New Jersey
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Muzzing, not the clover cussing
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When it's over,
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makes them feel more glamorous
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and more gay today
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Harden Koffman in Bucks County
pulled a farming killadilla
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When they planted in their cornfields
all their clippings from Joe Miller
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Farming is so charming,
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they all say, hey
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Farming, chasing chickens,
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that's the fashion
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Farming, raising chickens,
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that's the passion
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Of our great celebrities of today
Bernard Shaw doing turkey in the straw
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Don't inquire of Georgie Rath,
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why his cow has never calfed.
Georgie's bull is beautiful,
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but he's gay.
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Some fray in the hay, take it away.
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Mussin, up the clover, cussin.
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When it's over,
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make some fillin' for Melinda Gaget.
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that wheat with your grabby garble feet.
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The nat ives think it's utterly utter
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when Margie Potts starts
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churning her butter.
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Farming is so charming,
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they all say!
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