Susannah, Act I: Ain’t it a pretty night?

[SUSANNAH]
Ain't it a pretty night?

The sky's so dark and velvet-like
And it's all lit up with stars
It's like a great big mirror
Reflectin' fireflies over a pond
Look at all them stars, Little Bat
The longer you look the more you see
The sky seems so heavy with stars
That it might fall right down out of Heaven
And cover us all up in one big blanket
Of velvet all stitched with diamonds

Ain't it a pretty night?
Just think, the stars can all peep down
And see way beyond where we can
They can see way beyond them mountains
To Nashville and Asheville and Knoxville
I wonder what it's like out there
Out there beyond them mountains
Where the folks talk nice, and the folks dress nice
Like you see in the mail-order catalogs

I aim to leave this valley someday
And find out for myself
To see all the tall buildings
And all the street lights
And to be one of those folks myself

I wonder if I'd get lonesome for the valley though
For the sound of crickets
And the smell of pine straw
For soft little rabbits and bloomin' things
And the mountains turnin' gold in the fall
But I could always come back
If I got homesick for the valley
So I'll leave it someday and see for myself
Someday I'll leave and then I'll come back
When I've seen what's beyond them mountains

Ain't it a pretty night?
The sky's so heavy with stars tonight
That it could fall right down out of Heaven
And cover us up, and cover us up
In one big blanket of velvet and diamonds