Lazy, Long Hot Summer's Day

by Hans Theessink recording of 1995 from Crazy Moon (RFR 1016) Mama's in the kitchen Baking up some ice-cream pie Papa's on the river fishing Fish are so lazy they won't bite I'm lying in the shade Watch a lonely cloud drift by Lazy, long hot summer's day Lazy, just pass the time away Feel like doing nothing In this angry summer heat Just get high on the smell of honeysuckle Intoxicating sweet And watch the river flow As she winds her lonely way down to the sea Lazy, long hot summer's day Lazy, just pass the time away Can't play a lick My fingers just won't move no more My guitar plays a tune That I've never ever heard her play before It's her own sweet composition She don't seem to trust my brain no more Lazy, long hot summer's day Lazy, just pass the time away __________ Note 1: honeysuckle, any of various plants (as a columbine or azalea) with tubular flowers rich in nectar, see drawing

 

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