The Brothers Four - The Sloth lyrics

A Bradypus, or Sloth, am I, I live a life of ease Contented not to do or die, but idle as I please I have three toes on either foot, or half a doz. on both With leaves and fruits, and shoots to east, how sweet to be a Sloth The world is such a cheerful place when viewed from upside-down It makes a rise of every fall, a smile of every frown I watch the fleeting flutter by of bu*terfly or moth And think of all the things I'd try if I were not a Sloth. I could climb the very highest Hymalayas, be among the greatest tennis players, win at chess or marry a Princess or study hard and be an eminant professor. I could be a millionaire, play the clarinet, travel everywhere, Learn to cook, catch a crook, win a war then write a book about it. I could paint a Mona Lisa, I could be another Caesar. Compose an oratorio that was sublime. The door's not shut on my genius but I just don't have the time. For days and days among the trees I sleep and dream and doze Just gently swaying in the breeze suspended by my toes While eager beavers overhead rush through the undergrowth I watch the clouds beneath my feet; How sweet to be a Sloth.