Written by Bobbie Gentry

Get up, lazy Willie, there’s work to be done
Outta seventeen kids you’re the laziest one
Pigs in the kitchen an’ the rooster’s in the pig sty
Weeds in the garden busy growin’ up knee high
Lazy Willie, look at you, ain’t you a sight
D-d-dwee
D-dwee-dee-dwee
D-d-dwee
Lazy Willie, sleep all day and play all night
Mmm, hmm, mmm

Get up, lazy Willie, up ‘n’ outta that bed
There’s cows to be milked an’ the mules to be fed
Bin the corn, harvest the soy beans
An’ help me set the table for our comp’ny from New Orleans
Lazy Willie, you ain’t heard a word I said
D-d-d-dwee
D-dwee-dee-dwee
D-d-dwee
Lazy Willie, you gotta get up in time to go to bed
Mmm, hmm, mmm

Don’t you remember, lazy Willie, what mama used to say
That all summer long the grasshopper would play
The ant would work hard storin’ up his winter supply
‘n’ when the snow came the ant lived, the grasshopper died
Lazy Willie, while ants work hard the grasshopper play
D-dwee
D-dwee-dee-dwee
D-d-dwee
Lazy Willie, you’re gonna sprout green legs ‘n’ hop away

Gonna hop, hop away