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Summertime, time, time,
Child, the living's easy.
Fish are jumping out
And the cotton, Lord,
Cotton's high, Lord, so high.
Your daddy's rich
And your ma is so good-looking, baby.
She's looking good now,
Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
No, no, no, no, don't you cry.
Don't you cry!
One of these mornings
You're gonna rise, rise up singing,
You're gonna spread your wings,
Child, and take, take to the sky,
Lord, the sky.
Until that morning
Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm you now,
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Don't you cry,
Cry.
Child, the living's easy.
Fish are jumping out
And the cotton, Lord,
Cotton's high, Lord, so high.
Your daddy's rich
And your ma is so good-looking, baby.
She's looking good now,
Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
No, no, no, no, don't you cry.
Don't you cry!
One of these mornings
You're gonna rise, rise up singing,
You're gonna spread your wings,
Child, and take, take to the sky,
Lord, the sky.
Until that morning
Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm you now,
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Don't you cry,
Cry.
Lyrics submitted by annazoff
Track duration: 03:58
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"Guitar Player magazine listed Sam and James work on "Summertime" as one of the top ten psychedelic solos in music history."
Sam and James=Big Brother & the Holding Company, who Janis Joplin sang with for a few years. I'm not sure about the vocal but the guitars are fantastic
Artie Shaw would have been 8 years old in 1918. He didn't learn to play music till he was 15. Billie Holliday would have been 9 years old in 1924. She didn't start singing till the early 1930's.
Regardless, the song is an original composition by Gershwin, who wrote it in the mid 1930's.
and even though "lovely" wrote this in 04, who knows, might answer someone elses question
the duet was between Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Here's to Summertime 06, have a goodone everybody!