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Summertime

George Gershwin
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OriginalLa versione dilatata della Joplin con la Big Brother and the...
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Summertime
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Summertime-time-time,
Child, your living's easy.
Fish are, fish are jumping out
And the cotton, Lord,
Cotton's high, Lord, so high.
Oh, your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush, little baby,
Don't you cry
Your dad's rich
And your ma is so good-looking, baby.
She's a-looking pretty fine to me now,
Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby now,
No, no, no, no,
Don't you cry, don't you cry.
One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take the sky
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
There's a'nothing can harm you
With your daddy and mammy
standing by
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,
Don't you cry — cry.


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