Ballad for Lazybones

a ballad for lazybones

I was talking to two German people this afternoon who thought English was a very poor language because, they said, we had no good way to say fauler Sack, literally lazy bag. Turns out lazy bag and fauler Sack are both nautical terms, having to do, it seems, with someplace you stow your sails (?) and apparently nothing to do with a sack of potatoes, which is where their cute little German minds immediately went. But aside from that, I also think we have some pretty good ways to talk about lazy bums. 

lazy bum you lazy bag

you lazy lazy bones

flaggard dullard laggard slackard

man you got no jones

sleepy oaf you loafing sloth

you tardy, lardy bum

shiftless jack you snoozy joe

I know that tune you hum

lazy crazy lackadaisy

lousy drowsy goon

best snap to it, lazy-legs

this train is leaving soon!

you idle fool, you sluggish chump,

you lazy-booted dunce

I've told you now ten thousand times

if I have told you once.