F5 C5 G5 A5 I'm a dog, and I can smell your smell right through your clothes F5 G5 C5 F5 And I espouse some views that you yourself just might not hold C5 G5 C5 Sometimes I am given pause to think when F5 A5 I consider what we could call the good life F5 C5 G5 A5 When it comes to the city versus the country life F5 G5 C5 F5 Well, I must say that I far prefer a farmer's wife C5 G5 C5 Breakfast with the master in the morning F5 A5 Feel the breeze and brush against a cow's leg - mmm! G5 D5 G5 But it seems the thinkers you call greatest are D5 Bb5 F5 The sort who often fall ill young, or pine away Bb5 F5 G5 How can they help but drag the species down? F5 G5 C5 A5 There's some debate about whether instincts should be held in check F5 G5 C5 F5 Well, I suppose that I'm a liberal in this respect C5 D5 C5 I can't say I liked Robinson Crusoe F5 A5 But at least he didn't tie his dogs up at night G5 D5 G5 And it seems the thinkers you call greatest are D5 Bb5 F5 The sort who often fall ill young, or pine away Bb5 F5 G5 How can they help but drag the species down? Solo F5 G5 C5 A5 How come all your poets fall into despondencies? F5 G5 C5 F5 And then write it down for us to read every indignity? C5 D5 C5 Not such worthy specimens, these creatures F5 A5 Hardly fit for what you could call the good life G5 D5 G5 And it seems the thinkers you call greatest are D5 Bb5 F5 The sort who often fall ill young, or pine away Bb5 F5 G5 How can they help but drag the species down? Bb5 F5 G5 F5 G5 F5 G5 F5 G5 How can they help but drag the species down?