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Busy Doing Nothing
Does anyone remember an ad in the 80s for Ladybird children's clothes with a song that sounded as if it was from a Disney film? The words were "We're busy doing nothing/working the whole day through/trying to find lots of things not to do". I've never come across this song since but it's one that springs to mind regularly and I'd love to find it!
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Busy Doing Nothing
We're busy doing nothing, working all day through,
we're trying to find lots of things not to do.
We're busy going nowhere, isn't it such a crime ?
we'd like to be unhappy but we never do have the time.
I have to watch the river to see that it doesn't stop,
and stick around the rosebuds so they'll know when to pop.
Better keep those crickets cheerful,they're really a solemn bunch,
farso, farso. I never have the time for lunch.
I'd like to meet a turtle, and teach him how to swim,
then I have to shine the dew-drops, they're looking rather dim.
Meet my friend the robin and buy him a brand new vest.
Farso, farso, I never have time to rest.
My grandmother came to see that performance and in the years in between she�s often sung it back to me. She died at the end of 2005 a month after I became a father. They never got to meet each other. However since my little boy has started sittting in my lap while I �puter I have begun singing my half remembered version to him.
The film was quoted (UK- "A Yankee in King Arthurs Court) and it was sung by Bing Crosby, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix. (The original "Last of the Summer Wine " trio!)
It's now being used by MacDonalds - a complete lie, unfortunately!
http://www.songofthesalesman.co.uk/ad.aspx?par tist=bing