Boy, what's the matter with you?
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You ain't got no pep at all today! I always gets tired when it gets hot like this, you know.
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You is lazy, Is I?
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You just natu'lly lazy! That's what's the matter with me?
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You're doing nothing all the day. No, I don't never do nothing.
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You is loafin' on the levee. Yeah!
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Was you born that way? Yeah, I was born just like I is now, just like I is.
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I know, but you is lazy! Yeah.
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Just look at you,
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You just natu'lly lazy. Yeah, I'm lazy!
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Sitting there watching them muddy waters play. Yeah.
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'Cause you're heart's never heavy. Oh, no.
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Tell me, boy, was you born that way? Just like I is now, just like I is.
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Now, look here with that chicken so sweet, Chicken!
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And gravy five inches deep, Good gravy!
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The kind that melts right in your mouth. Great Caesar!
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You sleep 'til you eat, Loves to sleep.
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You eat 'til you sleep, Eat, too.
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That's your busy day down South. Busy sleepin'.
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You'se lazy, Yeah, I is.
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Just natu'lly lazy, Hmmm-hmmm-hmmm.
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Down in Dixie let him stay, Oh, what's that?
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Lordy, but he's lucky,
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He was born that way.
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Jess's Natu'lly Lazy
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