1st verse:]

Farmer Brown came to town

Started to take in the sights

Cabarets, swell cafes

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 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



[2nd verse:]

Missus 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