Lyr Req: Busy Doing Nothing

Subject: Lyr Req: Busy Doing Nothing
From: GUEST,cmt49
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 07:55 AM

Does anyone have the lyrics for this old classic? Apparently a modern band has recorded a song with the same title, but it's the one from the old Hollywood movie "A Connecticut Yankee At The Court Of King Arthur" I mean.

Subject: Lyr Add: BUSY DOING NOTHING
From: Pilgrim
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 09:09 AM

BUSY DOING NOTHING

We're busy doing nothing, working the whole day through,
Trying to find lots of things not to do.
We're busy going nowhere. Isn't it just a crime?
We'd like to be unhappy but we never do have the time.

I have to watch the river, to see that it doesn't stop,
Then stick around the rosebuds, so they'll know when to pop.
Better keep the crickets cheerful. They're really a solemn bunch.
Hustle, bustle, and only an hour for lunch.

(Repeat opening verse)

I have to wake the sun up. He's liable to sleep all day.
And then inspect the rainbows, so they'll be bright and gay.
You must rehearse the songbirds to see that they sing in key.
Hustle, bustle, and never a moment free.

(Repeat verse)

I have to meet a turtle. I'm teaching him how to swim.
Then I have to shine the dewdrops. You know they're looking rather dim.
I told my friend the robin I'd buy him a brand new vest.
Hustle, bustle, we never do have,
we never do have, we never do, never do, never do, never do,
Never do have the time,
Never do have the time.

(Please note that the opening verse, and each repetition of it, is preceded by a long string of la, la, las.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Busy Doing Nothing
From: Mike Miller
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 09:58 AM

I loved that movie. The song was performed by the unlikely trio of Bing Crosby, William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hartwick. It was the only really good song in the picture.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Busy Doing Nothing
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 08:05 AM

Previously posted and discussed in 3 threads:
here,
here, and
here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Busy Doing Nothing
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:15 PM

I found your message while looking up this song, which I knew I'd heard in a film. Wanted to quote it at the beginning of a poem I'd written on the subject of TIME, and couldn't remember which film it was from.
I remembered the first verse but had forgotten the others so it was fun to read them again.
Thanks.
Ann Shipp.