From the musical “Plain and Fancy”, 1954.
Words by Arnold B. Horwitt.
Music by Albert Hague.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Let me say it once, mister
We know how we want it here
We know who we are, mister
Don’t interfere
We don’t need a city man
With city soft words, to tell us what to do
Go upon your way, mister
We got our own way, too
Refrain
Plain we live, for plain we see
It’s good for people to live plain
Hard we work so life is good
When life is hard we don’t complain
Strangers look on us and call us strange
But cheat we don’t and steal we don’t
And wars we don’t arrange
Plain we live, for plain is good
And plain is how we mean to stay
To God we pray to keep us plain