Buy A Nice Little Home In The Country - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
Buy a Nice Little Home in the Country. Copyright, 1892, by Frank Harding. Words and Music by Ed. Barry. 
I'm a man that's lately married, And rents are so high about town, So I thought I no longer would tarry, but buy a small house of my own. A nice little home in the country, no rent would I then have to pay, And my friends one and all did advise me, And this unto me they did say: 
Chorus. Buy a nice little home in the country, a dear little place for your wife; Be your own landlord and owner, and settle down there for your life; With your pigs and your chickens And garden, no doctor to Bend in his bill, When the springtime comes, gentle Annie, oh! what a chill. 
I was up at daybreak the next morning, And for work then I started to go; It was just as the day was a-dawning, the wind thro' my whiskers did blow. The train it was blocked for an hour, I was late When I reached the shop door. And the boss he then quickly discharg'd me, while all of the men they did roar, 
Chorus When I started for home in the evening, oh! then the rain did begin, The weather was way below zero, and the icicles hung on my chin. A bull-dog he made a rush at me, the tails of my coat he tore, My wife she raised up the window, and this unto me she did roar:-Chorus. 
The springtime it brought us malaria, my wife and myself took the chills, It took all the money we had in the house to keep us a-going eating pills. The furniture shook in the parlor, the clock it walked off the shelf, The carpet it joined in the racket-why, it got up And shook itself.-Chorus. 
The summer it brought us mosquitoes, they came in by the light of the moon, They then did begin for to eat us, each bit as big us a balloon. They drove us all out of our beds, on the floor we then had to lay, And while round my head they kept buzzing I fancied I could hear them say: Chorus.