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Thread #16537   Message #154475
Posted By: Pete Peterson
27-Dec-99 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Sloth (Flanders & Swann)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: How Sweet to Be a Sloth?
The song is by Flanders and Swann and should be in "The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann"; sadly, I lack a copy. If all else fails I will post what I remember after a Decent Interval has elapsed & nobody else has stepped forward. It starts out
A Bradypus, or Sloth am I, I live a life of ease
Contented not to do or die, but idle, as I please
I have three toes on either foot, or half a doz' on both
with leaves and nuts and fruit to eat, how sweet to be a Sloth

BTW, the part I most lack is the fast part, which you seem to have nailed! Between the two of us we can reconstruct it.