Summer Time Classic

Story Behind The Song

Have sung this forever a cappella now it was time to sing it with music. I was 17 when I first sang this. I would sit in front of our HFI and listen until I could sing with out the music.

Song Description

From the opera of 1934...Porky and Bess

Song Length 2:24 Genre Folk - Americana, Folk - Americana
Tempo Slow (71 - 90) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Serene, Peaceful Subject Love for Child, Baby, Children
Language English Era 1930 - 1939

Lyrics

Lyrics
Summertime


Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Though your daddy's rich
And your ma she's good lookin'

So hush, little baby, don't you cry

One of these mornins'
your goina' rise up, singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take the sky

But til that mornin'
there's a nothing can harm you
With mammy and daddy
Standing by

Summer Time
Summer Time

So hush little baby
Don't, don't, don't

You cry ....Summertime, Summertime

Lyrics DuBose Heyward Music George Gershwin
Producer Joe Podlesny Publisher Joe Podlesny
Performance Delta Burnett Reed/music arranger Joe Podlesny Label Avocet Studio

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