Lazybones (song)
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lazybones-song-162-11029826
title:
Lazybones (song)
text:
Lazybones or "Lazy Bones" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1933, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael. Mercer was 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. He wrote the lyrics to "Lazybones" as a protest against those artificial
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description:
1933 song by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazybones_(song)
date created:
2006-06-16T22:05:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T23:58:11Z
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