Jerome Kern
Yesterdays / Lazy Afternoon
[Yesterdays:]
Yesterdays, Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy, sweet, sequester days
Olden days, golden days
Days of laughter, days of love
Youth was mine, truth was mine
Joy is free, this time of life, all was mine
Sad am I, glad am I, for today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays
[Lazy Afternoon:]
It's a lazy afternoon
And the beetlebugs are zooming
And the tulip trees are blooming
And there's not another human, in view
But us two
It's a lazy afternoon
And the farmerleafs is reaping
And the metal calls are sleeping
And the speckled trout stopped leaping up [?]
As we dream
[?] Hangs over the hill, unfolded like a rose
If you hold my hand, and sit real still
You can hear the grass, as it grows
It's a lazy afternoon
And I know a place that's quiet
Except for daisies running riot
And there's no one passing by it, to see
Come spend this lazy afternoon
With me