After Supper

After Supper

music and lyric by Neal Hefti

After supper you can hear the coffee perkin'.
After supper all the crickets are a-chirpin'.
After supper when you feel there's danger lurkin'.
After supper when you're feelin' fine and mellow.
After supper when the glow worms light the meadow.
After supper when a lady needs her fellow.

Then it's midnight and the stillness is exciting.
Here comes daybreak and the speckled trout are biting.
Soon it's evening with its shadows so inviting.

After supper when the milky way is shinin'.
After supper ain't no time to go a-pinin'.
After supper all the world's a silver linin'...