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Lazy Afternoon
Words & Music by John Latouche & Jerome Moross
Recorded by June Christy, 1957
Em Em7 Em6 Em7/6 Em6
It's a lazy af - ter - noon,
Em Em7 Em6 Em7/6 Em6
And the bee - tle bugs are zoom - in'
Em7 A7 Em7 A7 Em7 A7
And the tu - lip trees are bloom - in'
Em7 Em7/6 Em7 A7 Em7 A7/9 Em7 Em9 Em7 A7
And there's not an - oth - er hu - man in view but us two.
Am Am7 D9 Am7 D9
It's a la - zy af - ter - noon,
Am Am7 D9 Am7 D9
And the far - mer leaves his reap - in',
Am Am7 D9 Am7 D7/9
In the mea - dow, cows are sleep - in',
Am7 D9 Am7 A7/9 Am7 A7/9 D9 A7/9 Em7 G/B A7/9 D7
And the speck - led trout stops leap - in' up - stream as we dream.
Am7 A9 A7/9 A9 A7/9 D7 Am7 D7
A fat, pink cloud hangs o - ver the hill,
Am7 D7 D7/9 D7 Am7 D9
Un - fold - ing like a rose;
Am7 D7/9 Am7 D7 Am7 D Am7 D7
If you hold my hand and sit real still,
Am D7/9 A7/9 Am Am7 A7/9 D9 B7 Em
You can hear the grass as it grows.
Em Em7 Em6 Em7/6 Em6
It's a ha - zy af - ter - noon,
Em Em7 Em6 Em7/6 Em6
And I know a place that's qui - et,
G/B A7 Em7 A7 Em7
'Cept for dai - sies run - nin' ri - ot,
Em7 Em7/6 Em7 A7 Em7 A7/9 Em7 Em9 Em7 A7
And there's no - one pass - in' by it to see;
Em7 A Am Am7 Am D9 Am7 D7/9 Em
Come spend this la - zy af - ter - noon with me.
I'm probably biased, but between this song and "Lazy Summer Night," few songs have ever painted word-pictures so eloquently. The two make a pretty awesome medley, too.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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