Lyr Req: Lazy Bones & Gone Fishin'

Subject: A Couple Old Songs
From: Lynn Koch, KinderFolk Music Productions
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 03:08 PM

A colleague of mine is looking for lyrics and music (or perhaps just lyrics) to "Lazy Bones" and "Gone Fishin'". I have no knowledge of who might have recorded them, thoughI seem to remember a more recent recording (in this decade) of Joel Mavis (?) singing Lazy Bones. Any help out there?

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs
From: John Mayberry
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 03:45 PM

Lazy Bones is on Leon Redbone's first album, I'm pretty sure. Sorry, don't remember the album title.

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 04:37 PM

Lazy Bones is on Leon Redbone's "On The Track" a wonderful of album.

Goin' Fishin', I believe was done as a duet by Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby.

Hope this helps.

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs
From: Ferrara
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 08:17 PM

Lazy Bones, sleepin' in the shade, How you gonna get your cornmeal made? Never get your cornmeal made, Sleepin' in the shade. Lazy Bones, sleepin' in the sun, How you gonna get your work all done? Never get your work all done, sleeping in the sun.

A fragment only.

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs
From: Rosie
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 08:47 PM

Another fragment.....

Lazybones, sleepin' in the noonday sun

Lazybones, never gonna get a day's work done

Lazybones, sleepin' in the noonday sun,

Lazybones, never gonna make a dime that way

Sam Cooke????

Rosie

Subject: Lyr Add: LAZY BONES (Mercer, Carmichael)^^
From: Brakn
Date: 19 Mar 99 - 06:44 AM

Words and music by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael.
1933
Additional words by Horatio Nicholls.

Lazy bones, sleepin' in the sun,
How you 'spec' to get your day's work done?
Never get your day's work done
Sleepin' in the noon-day sun,

Lazy bones, sleepin' in the shade,
How you 'spec' to get your corn meal made?
Never get your corn meal made
Sleepin' in the evenin' shade,

When 'taters need sprayin', I bet you keep prayin'
The slugs fall of the vine
And when you go fishin', I bet you keep wishin'
The fish won't grab at your line

Lazy bones, loafin' through the day,
How you 'spec' to make a dime that way?
Never make a dime that way
(Spoken)Well looky here!
He never heard a word I say.

Regards Mick Bracken

Subject: Lyr Add: GONE FISHIN' (Kenny/Kenny)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 May 03 - 11:43 PM

Copied from http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/GoneFishin.html

GONE FISHIN'
(Nick A. Kenny / Charles F. Kenny)

[Louis Armstrong sang this song with Bing Crosby as a guest on Bing's Chesterfield Show in April 1951. The duet reveals the delightful musical kinship between Bing and Satchmo. Decca preserved this performance on disk, which charted for two weeks that summer.]

I'll tell you why I can't find you
Every time I go out to your place...

You gone fishin' (well how you know)
Well there's a sign upon your door (uh-huh)
Gone fishin' (I'm real gone man)
You ain't workin' anymore (could be)
There's your hoe out in the sun
Where you left a row half done
You claim that hoein' ain't no fun (well I can prove it)
You ain't got no ambition

Gone fishin' by a shady wady pool (Shangri-la, really la)
I'm wishin' I could be that kind of fool (should I twist your arm?)
I'd say no more work for mine (welcome to the club)
On my door I'd hang a sign
Gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'

Papa Bing (yeah Louis)
I stopped by your place a time or two lately
And you aren't home either
Well, I'm a busy man Louis. I got a lotta deals cookin'
I was probably tied up at the studio
You weren't tied up you dog
You was just plain old...

Gone fishin' (bah-boo-bah-boo-bah-boo-bah-boo-bah)
There's a sign upon your door (Pops, don't blab it around, will you?)
Gone fishin' (keep it shady, I got me a big one staked out)
Mmm, you ain't workin' anymore (I don't have to work, I got me a piece of Gary)
Cows need milkin' in the barn (I have the twins on that detail, they each take a side)
But you just don't give a darn (give 'em four bits a cow and hand lotion)
You just never seem to learn (man, you taught me)
You ain't got no ambition (you're convincin' me)

Gone fishin' (bah-boo-dah-do-dah-do-dah-do)
Got your hound dog by your side (that's old Cindy-Lou goin' with me)
Gone fishin' (mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm)
Fleas are bitin' at his hide (get away from me boy, you bother me)

Mmm, folks won't find us now because
Mister Satch and Mister Cros
We gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'
Bah-boo-baby-bah-boo-bah-bay-mmm-bo-bay
Oh yeah!

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs - Lazybones & Gone Fishin'
From: Kaleea
Date: 12 May 03 - 12:28 AM

I always loved to listen to the Mills Brothers, and they are who I "hear" singing Lazy Bones! I also recall Der Bingle singing it in a movie, too. I always loved the interaction between Mr. Armstrong & Mr. Crosby--to have a video full of their ad libs during acts would be marvelous.

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs - Lazybones & Gone Fishin'
From: Mudlark
Date: 12 May 03 - 01:16 AM

Leon's rendition of LazyBones is great...that album is one of my favorites. But I've got an even better recording, of Hoagy doing it himself...and it is definitive.

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs - Lazybones & Gone Fishin'
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 12 May 03 - 02:20 AM

Versions of Lazy Bones... I'd have to go for Paul Robeson.

Subject: RE: A Couple Old Songs - Lazybones & Gone Fishin'
From: cobber
Date: 17 May 03 - 03:50 AM

I just bought the old 78 recording of Bing & Louis singing gone fishing a month or two back. I'll have to look it out because my memory tells me that Lazybones was the flip side. Then again, my memory isn't what it used to be. I'll plan to MP3 my old 78s when I can get the right turntable so if I do, I'll post a new thread and make it available.