Head down, pawing with one hoof
The first bite she took was when I hit the roof
Plants end up like a hedge that's been trimmed too much
Till you lose half your plants to one deer's lunch

Fawn in the yard today
There's a fawn in the yard today
There's a fawn in the yard today
Fawn in the yard today

I'll never get that homemade jam
If those little deer don't up and scram
Send them off to a foreign land
To go and eat another's plant.

Fawn in the yard today
There's a fawn in the yard today
There's a fawn in the yard today
Fawn in the yard today

Go out back to the veggie patch
Lettuce and herbs, there is nothing left but thatch
Went down to see the flower bed
I found none, just some stalks instead.

I have a sister lives quite near
Fighting off the herds of deer
They're still there, she's in tears
She had a garden she loved most dear
She's got a picture of some flowers left now

Down in the shadow of the big old oak tree
Out by the mailbox in the new shrubbery
Deer -- twenty, thirty -- munch away
But they're so cute! Ain't got nothing to say

Fawn in the yard today
There's a fawn in the yard today
There's a fawn in the yard today
Fawn in the yard today

I'm a long gone gardener in the USA
Fawn in the yard today
Fawn in the yard today
Fawn in the yard today
They're a pain in the tushy in the USA