lazy willie

bobbie gentry

get up

lazy willie

there's work to be done

out of seventeen kids

you're the laziest one

pigs in the kitchen and the roosters in the pig stye

weeds in the garden busy growin' up knee high

lazy willie

look at you

ain't you a sight

tuh tuh twee tuh twee dee twee

tuh tuh twee

lazy willie

sleep all day and play all night

umm hmm

umm

get up

lazy willie

up and outta that bed

there's cows to be milked and mule's to be fed

thin the corn

harvest the soybeans

and help me set the table for our company from new orleans

lazy willie

wake up

you ain't heard a word i said

tuh tuh twee tuh twee dee twee

tuh tuh twee

lazy willie

you gotta get up in time to go to bed

umm hmm

umm

don't you remember

lazy willie

what moma would say?

that all summer long the grasshopper would play

the ant would work hard stowing up his winter supply

and when the snow came the ant lived

the grasshopper died

lazy willie

well

ants work hard and grasshoppers play

tuh tuh twee di twee di dee

tuh tuh twee

oh

lazy willie

you're gonna sprout green legs and hop away

gonna ha-hop away