Video The First Thing You Know de Alan Jay Lerner 2025 Lyrics Lyrics

Alan Jay Lerner - The First Thing You Know Lyrics

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God made the mountains
God made the sky
God made the people
God knows why

He fixed up the planet
As best as He could
Then in come the people
And gum it up good

The first thing you know

They civilized the foothills
And everywhere he put hills
The mountains and valley below
They come along and take 'em
And civilize and make 'em
A place where no civilized person would go

The first thing you know
The first thing you know

They civilize what's pretty
By puttin' up a city
Where nothin' that's pretty can grow
They muddy up the winter
And civilize it into
A place too uncivilized even for snow
The first thing you know

They civilize left
They civilize right
'Til nothing is left
'Til nothing is right
They civilize freedom
'Til no one is free
No one except by coincidence, me

The first thing you know

The boozer's in prison
And the criminal, he isn't
And only the rascals have gone
When I see a parson
I gotta put my arse in
A wagon that follows the tail of a crow

The first thing you know
I pick up and blow!
The first thing you know