Mountain Greenery is a popular show tune from the 1926 musical The Garrick Gaieties, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It was first performed on stage by Sterling Holloway and published in 1926. The song is considered a jazz standard, with Hart’s witty enjambment and internal rhymes shaping the lyrics. Early recordings include Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra and Frank Crumit in 1926, and it has since been covered by many artists on various albums—Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Page, Mel Tormé, Barbara Lea, the Supremes, and Tony Bennett, among others. The tune also appeared in the 1948 MGM film Words and Music, performed by Perry Como and Allyn Ann McLerie, and has pops up in popular culture such as The Dick Van Dyke Show episode The Sleeping Brother in 1962.
