Mama's in the kitchen
  Baking up some ice-cream pie
  Papa's on the river fishing
  Fish are so lazy they won't bite
  I'm lying in the shade
  Watch a lonely cloud drift by
  
  Lazy, long hot summer's day
  Lazy, just pass the time away
  
  Feel like doing nothing
  In this angry summer heat
  Just get high on the smell of honeysuckle
  Intoxicating sweet
  And watch the river flow
  As she winds her lonely way down to the sea
  
  Lazy, long hot summer's day
  Lazy, just pass the time away
  
  Can't play a lick
  My fingers just won't move no more
  My guitar plays a tune
  That I've never ever heard her play before
  It's her own sweet composition
  She don't seem to trust my brain no more
  
  Lazy, long hot summer's day
  Lazy, just pass the time away