The way this song speaks to me🥺🥺when I sing it I feel like I relate
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 now
No, no, no, 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
But until that morning
Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm ya
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, don't you 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 now
No, no, no, 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
But until that morning
Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm ya
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, don't you cry
Lyrics submitted by annazoff
Summertime Lyrics as written by Du Bose Heyward Dorothy Heyward
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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This one's just awesome.. i love it and i think it's one of Janis' best songs ever.. But i've been surfing on the wonderful world of the internet and found that this song was performed for the first time by Artie Shaw in 1918. It was originally a jazz-song (as you can see by the rest of the people who have performed it, almost every one of them made a jazz piece of it). From 1918 til 1924 no one else had performed it, but in 1924 Billie Holiday ( and Shelly Manne too) did for the musical 'I got Rhythm' , with the music of George Gershwin. After that there are like 26 pages of people who have performed it, but i've listened a couple of them and i think Janis' version is one of the best.. The guitarsolo and the way her voice sounds, damn!