| Also recorded by: Mel Torme; Bing Crosby; Val Doonican; Stan Getz; |
| Johnny Hartman; Maxine Sullivan; Carol Sloane; |
| Stephane Grappelli; George Shearing; Oscar Peterson; Sylvia McNair; |
| Kiri Te Kanawa; Diana Krall; Helen Merrill; |
| Nina Simone; Jo Stafford; Carmen McRae; Bill Henderson; Andrea arcovicci; |
| Bobby Hutcherson; Sammy Davis Jr. |
| Many men with lofty aims, |
| Strive for lofty goals, |
| Others play at smaller games, |
| Being simpler souls. |
| I am of the latter brand; |
| All I want to do, |
| Is to find a spot of land, |
| And live there with you. |
| Someday we’ll build a home on a hilltop high, |
| You and I, |
| Shiny and new a cottage that two can fill. |
| And we’ll be pleased to be called, |
| «The folks who live on the hill». |
| Someday we may be adding a thing or two, |
| A wing or two. |
| We will make changes as any fam’ly will, |
| But we will always be called, |
| «The folks who live on the hill». |
| Our veranda will command a view of meadows green, |
| The sort of veiw that seems to want to be seen. |
| And when the kids grow up and leave us, |
| We’ll sit and look at the same old view, |
| Just we two. |
| Darby and Joan who used to be Jack and Jill, |
| The folks who like to be called, |
| What they have always been called, |
| «The folks who live on the hill». |