Lazy Willie - Bobbie Gentry

Get up, Lazy Willie, there’s work to be done

Out of 17 kids you’re the laziest one

Pigs in the kitchen and the roosters in the pig sty

And 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

Um-hmm-mm, umm

Get up, Lazy Willie, up and outta that bed

There’s cows to be milked and the mules to be fed

Thin the corn, harvest the soybeans

And help me set the table for our comp’ny 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

Um-hmm, umm

Don’t you remember, Lazy Willie, what Momma used to say?

That all summer long the grasshopper would play

The ant would work hard storin' up his winter supply

When the snow came ant lived, the grasshopper died

Lazy Willie, well ants work hard and grasshoppers play

Tuh-tuh-twee, tuh-twee-dee-twee, tuh-tuh-twee

Oh, Lazy Willie, you’re gonna sprout green legs and hop away

Gonna ha-ha-hop away