I Meant To Do My Work Today (A Day In The Country) lyrics - Elton John

(from "Friends" soundtrack)

"I meant to do my work today

The brown bird sang in the apple tree

I know that's why

And a butterfly flittered across 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..."

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?