I Meant To Do My Work Today (A Day In The Country)

I meant to do my work today

But a brown bird sang in the apple tree

I know that one, too ....

And a butterfly flitted accross the field

And all the leaves were calling me

And the Buttercups nodded their smiling heads

Greeting the bees who came to call

And I asked the lizard the time of day

As he sunned himself on a moss-grown wall

And the wind went sighing over the land,

Tossing the grasses to and fro,

And a rainbow held out its shining hand

So what could I do but laugh and go?