Summertime - Live [1958/Chicago] lyrics

Summertime, and the living is easy

Fish are jumping and the cotton is high

Your daddy is rich and your ma is good-looking

So hush, little baby!

Baby, don't you cry!

One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing

You're gonna spread your wings, and you'll take to the sky

But 'til that morning, there's a-nothing can harm you

With daddy and mammy—ma-a-ammy sta-a-anding by

Summertime, and the living is easy

Fish are jumping and the cotton is hi-i-igh

Your daddy is rich and your mom is good-looking

So be quiet!

Keep still—sh!

Hush, little baby, don't you cry!

One of these mornings—

One of these mornings, you're gonna wake up singing

You're gonna spread your wings, and you'll take to the sky

Bu-u-ut 'ti-i-il that morning, there's a-nothing can harm you

With daddy and mammy standing by

[spoken]

They say, "Summertime—the living is easy!"

What makes it easy?

You have to go out and work,

So you go out, and you do a day's work.

It's so warm, it's so hot, you perspire,

yes, you perspire, and you perspire,—

What do you get?

Perspiration!

But you don't mind it because it's summertime,

and the living is easy.

So you say, "I think I'll go down—let's—let's go down,

and dig the real cool sounds at Mr. Kelly's.

You come in Mr. Kelly's, and you taste a while,

yes, daddy, you drink a while!

And you drink—What do you get?

The check!

But you don't mind it, 'cause it's summertime,

and the living is easy.

What do you care?

Your daddy is rich, you got a good-looking mother—

Imagine everybody with a good-looking mother and a rich daddy!

Oh-ho!

Summertime! That's what the song's in: the living easy!

Ha-ha, o, yeah! Ha-ha!

Summertime!

Summertime!

Summertime!

And the living is easy!