LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,139)
  • Text Authors (19,552)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Leo Israel

Lazy afternoon
Language: English 
It's a lazy afternoon;
Feel like singin' a lazy tune,
With the grass for my bed,
And a plum tree shady overhead.
But the barley's not yet in;
I hear tell it should've been,
And I've no call to lie here dreaming
on a lazy afternoon.
There's a bee comes buzzin' by;
Got his chores, and so have I:
Heard a song about the bee,
Says that busy little bug might be me!
Gettin' honey, sun to sun,
'Til the honey harvest's done.

Text Authorship:

  • by Leo Israel  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Elie Siegmeister (1909 - 1991), "Lazy afternoon", published 1947, copyright © 1943 [voice and piano], from Ozark Set, E.B. Marks [
     text verified 1 time
    ]
  • by Elie Siegmeister (1909 - 1991), "Lazy afternoon", published 1946, copyright © 1943 [chorus], Southern Music Publ. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Leonard Lehrman

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 83

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris