A popular song from 1933 Words and music by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael
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Lyrics
Long as there is chicken gravy on your rice
Everything is nice
Long as there’s a watermelon on the vine
Everything is fine
You got no time to work
You got no time to play
Busy doin’ nothin’ all the livelong day
You won’t ever change no matter what I say
You’re just made that way
Chorus:
Lazybones, sleepin’ in the sun
How you spect to get your day’s work done?
Never get your day’s work done
Sleepin’ in the noon day sun
Lazybones, sleepin’ in the shade
How you spect to get your cornmeal made?
Never get your cornmeal made
Sleepin’ in the evening shade
When taters need sprayin’
I bet you keep prayin’
The bugs fall off of the vine
And when you go fishin’
I bet you keep wishin’
The fish won’t grab at your line
Lazybones, loafin’ thru the day
How you spect to make a dime that way?
Never make a dime that way
(Well looky here)
He never heared a word I say