There's a place I can get to
Where I'm safe from the city blues
And it's green and it's quiet
Only trouble was I had to buy it And I'll do anything I got to do
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
And keep on singin' the blues
If I can stay here in Johnny's garden As the swift bird flies over the gra**es
Dipping now and then, to take his breakfast
Thus I come and go and I travel
But I can watch that bird and then ravel And I'll do anything I got to do
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
And keep on singin' the blues
If I can stay here in Johnny's garden With his love and his carin'
He puts his life into beauty sharin'
And his children are his flowers
And they give me peace in quiet hours And I'll do anything I got to do
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
And keep on singin' the blues
If I can stay here in Johnny's garden