City Lights

The little old lady sat on the porch of the farmhouse

The little old lady rocked back and forth and crocheted

"Oh, listen to the crickets, look at the rooster

Smell the hay," I told her

"And see the pretty little egg

That the hen just laid"

The little old lady took off her glasses and squinted

And how she responded literally had me floored

She said, "It's nice to meet someone who appreciates

The beauty that nature initiates

It's sweet to hear

But me, my dear

I'm truly bored

I miss those city lights

Those sparkling city lights

Those twinkling city lights

Blurring my eyes

I love those city nights

The color of city sights

That shine under city lights

Tinting the skies

New-mown hay gives me hay fever

There's the rooster, where's my cleaver?

So laid back, my mind might crack

And when the thresher's up

My pressure's up

City lights

Oh, I long for those city lights

The bulbs of those beaming brights

Beckoning me there, be there

Take your crickets and go shove 'em

Urban crises, how I love 'em

Grim and grits and pretty city lights

Walking lanes to pick a daisy

That could drive a person crazy

Home-made bread lays here like lead

And Polly's Peach Preserves

Oh, please my nerves

City lights

How I long for those city lights

The bulbs of those beaming brights

Beckoning me there, oh, be there

Sties and stables sure are smelly

Let me sniff some kosher deli

Brightly lit by pretty city lights

Pluck your lily out of the valley

Let me sally up some alley

Dimly lit by pretty city lights

Country air means zilch to me

I won't breathe nothin' I can't see

So let me quit and hit

Those pretty city lights

Hit them city

Take me home now

City lights

Love them lights

Fairs and socials ain't no plusses

I score more on cross-town buses

Brightly lit by pretty city lights

Hold that udder and chain that butter

Me, I'd ruther chum some gutter

Dimly lit by pretty city lights

Swap those sows, go on and fill your pails

Honey, just let me plant my bums down in Bloomingdale's

Yes, let me quit and hit

Those pretty city lights

Love them city

Take them lights