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