Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_1-this-is-the-life-2-the-international-rag_ben-pollack-and-his-orchestra-paula-g_gbia0030432b
https://archive.org/details/78_this-is-the-life_peerless-quartette-berlin_gbia0037525b
Publication Date
1904
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Farmer Brown came to town,
Started to take in the sights:
Cabarets, swell cafés,
Took up most of his nights,
After seven days or so,
After seeing ev’ry show,
After meeting May and Flo,
Farmer Brown remarked:
[Chorus]
“I love the cows and the chickens,
But this is the life, this is the life!
I love to raise the dickens!
While I’m Cabareting,
Where the band is playing;
I love the homemade cider,
But I’d rather have wine.
No more picking berries,
Me for cocktail cherries!
This is the life, this is the life, this is the life for mine.”
[Verse 2]
Misses Brown, out of town,
Wrote to her husband and said:
“Please come home, I’m alone!”
When her letter he read,
Farmer Brown took off his coat,
Sat right down and then he wrote
To his wife a little note,
This is what he said:
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Berlin, Irving, "This is the Life" (1904). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1506.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1506
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. 112 W. 38th St., (1904)
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