Queen: The Greatest Legend Lives Forever

Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon

I go out 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
I come from London Town, I'm just an ordinary guy
Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
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

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♪ Song fact: Often an overlooked (probably due to it's length) song, this has a number of allusions to songs that Queen hadn't yet released. The lyrics, "On Tuesday I go off to honeymoon" can be seen as a reference to "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" and "Bicycling on every Wednesday evening" as a reference to "Bicycle Race ."
This song, which essentially outlines a man's week and how much he loves his Sunday afternoon, contains a paradox halfway through when he claims to be an ordinary guy (from London town) but on Fridays goes painting at the Louvre. It should also be noted that Freddie Mercury technically never was from London. Mercury explained the song in an interview to
Record Mirror in 1976. "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 and I'm sure I'm going to do more than that... It's quite a challenge." So although the song was only a short interlude on the original album, it certainly pointed the way for the more flamboyant, theatrical direction Mercury and Queen's songwriting would take in the 1970s.