Lazybones

Lazybones

Lazybones is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1933, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael. Major hit records at the time of introduction included Ted Lewis and Mildred Bailey. Jonathan King's 1971 revival was played on US soft rock stations, earning a position on Billboard's Easy Listening chart.

Mercer was a southern boy from Savannah, Georgia, and resented the Tin Pan Alley attitude of rejecting southern regional vernacular in favor of artificial southern songs written by people who had never been to the South. Alex Wilder attributes much of the popularity of this song to Mercer's perfect regional lyric. [ cite book
first= Alex
last= Wilder
authorlink=
coauthors=
year= 1990
title= American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950
edition=
publisher= Oxford University Press
location= New York & Oxford
id= ISBN 0-19-501445-6 ]

He wrote the lyrics to "Lazybones" as a protest against those artificial "Dixies", announcing the song's authenticity at the start with "Long as there is chicken gravy on your rice".cite book
first= Philip
last= Furia
authorlink=
coauthors=
year= 1992
title=Poets of Tin Pan Alley
edition=
publisher=Oxford University Press
location= New York & Oxford
id= ISBN 0-19-507473-4]

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External links

* [http://www.johnnymercer.com/FAQ/Lazy%20Bones.htm Lyrics]


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