Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities, old mother nature's recipes That brings the bare necessities of life Wherever I wander, yeah, wherever I roam I couldn't be fonder, yeah, for my big home The bees are buzzing in the trees To make some honey just for me When you look under the rocks and the plants And take a glance at the fancy ants Then maybe try a few Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah The bare necessities of life will come to you Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife Yeah, I mean the bare necessities, old mother nature's recipes That brings the bare necessities of life Now when you pick a paw paw, or a prickly pear And you pick a raw paw, well, next time beware Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw When you pick a pear try use the claw But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big paw paw When you find out you can live without it And go along not thinking about it I'll tell you something true Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife Yeah, I mean the bare necessities, old mother nature's recipes That brings the bare necessities of life Yeah, have I given you a clue? The bare necessities of life will come to you They'll come to you Yeah, you They'll come to you Yeah They'll come to you They'll come to you