The First Thing You Know
Lee Marvin * Track #3 On Paint Your Wagon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Album Paint Your Wagon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- #1I’m On My Way
Paint Your Wagon Chorus
- #2I Still See Elisa
Clint Eastwood (Actor)
- #3The First Thing You Know
Lee Marvin
- #4Hand Me Down That Can o’ Beans
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Paint Your Wagon Chorus
- #5They Call the Wind Maria
Harve Presnell & Paint Your Wagon Chorus
- #6A Million Miles Away Behind the Door
Jean Seberg
- #7There’s a Coach Comin’ In
Harve Presnell & Paint Your Wagon Chorus
- #8Whoop-Ti-Ay! (Shivaree)
Paint Your Wagon Chorus
- #9I Talk to the Trees
Clint Eastwood (Actor)
- #10The Gospel of No Name City
Alan Dexter & Paint Your Wagon Chorus
- #11Best Things
Clint Eastwood (Actor) & Ray Walston & Lee Marvin
- #12Wand’rin’ Star
Lee Marvin
- #13Gold Fever
Clint Eastwood (Actor)
- #14Finale
Paint Your Wagon Chorus
The First Thing You Know by Lee Marvin
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Lee MarvinProduced by
Alan Jay LernerWrited by
Alan Jay LernerThe First Thing You Know Annotated
God made the mountains
God made the sky
God made the people
God knows why
He fixed up the planet
As best as He could
Then in come the people
And gum it up good
The first thing you know
They civilized the foothills
And every weary put hills
The mountains and valley below
They come along and take 'em
And civilize and make 'em
A place where no civilized
Person would go
The first thing you know
The first thing you know
They civilize what's pretty
By puttin' up a city
Where nothin' that's
Pretty can grow
They muddy up the winter
And civilize it, into a place
Too uncivilized
Even for snow
The first thing you know
They civilize left
They civilize right
Till nothing is left
Till nothing is right
They civilize freedom
Till no one is free
No one except
By coincidence, me
The first thing you know
The boozer's in prison
And the criminal, he isn't
And only the rascals have gone
When I see a parson
I gotta put my arse in
A wagon that follows the tail of a crow
The first thing you know
I pick up and blow!
The first thing you know
The First Thing You Know Q&A
Who wrote The First Thing You Know's ?
The First Thing You Know was written by Alan Jay Lerner.
Who produced The First Thing You Know's ?
The First Thing You Know was produced by Alan Jay Lerner.
When did Lee Marvin release The First Thing You Know?
Lee Marvin released The First Thing You Know on Wed Oct 15 1969.