“Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” chronicles a week in the life of a seemingly ordinary man whose week peaks on Sunday afternoon.
In a true Vaudevillian spirit, the song sounds as if sung through a megaphone. The effect was achieved by using two headphones placed within a metal can.
The song is a sta...
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
I go off to work on Monday morning
Tuesday, I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before it's time for sunny-down
I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday, I go waltzing to the Zoo (Uuuh)
[Bridge]
I come from London town
I'm just an ordinary guy
Fridays, I go painting in the Louvre
[Verse 2]
I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes again)
I'll be lazing on a Sunday, lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon
[Outro]
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon was written by Freddie Mercury.
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon was produced by Queen & Roy Thomas Baker.
Queen released Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon on Fri Nov 21 1975.
That’s the way the mood takes me. Y'know… that’s just one aspect of me, and I can really change. Everything on ‘Sunday Afternoon’ is something that… I’m really, I’m really sort of, I really… well, I love doing the vaudeville side of things. It’s quite a sort of test… I love writing things like that...