EPISODE 860 SUMMERTIME…AND THE LIVIN’ IS EASY (LYRICS BY GEORGE GERSHWIN)
alan skeoch
July 20. 2023
TODAY, Woody and I took a drive around our farm. Hardly a farm any more for we encourage the wilderness
to return. Today was a day to sing because George Gershwin was right “the living’ is easy”.
A few thoughts in words below….certainly not Gershwin but you’re “going to rise up singing” as I have on
this summer day (July 21, 2063)
“The bees got to humming
And blue is the sky
Marjorie is mowing
I won’t even try
The clover field
will be sweet in the winter
when these fields of green
will be hard to recall”
alan
What is Marjorie holding? Seems alive…wild…frisky…take a guess.
Summertime
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy’s rich
And your ma is good-lookin’
So hush, little baby
Don’t you cry
[Verse 2]
One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take the sky
But ’til that morning
There’s a’nothing can harm you
With daddy and mammy standing by
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy’s rich
And your ma is good-lookin’
So hush, little baby
Don’t you cry
[Verse 2]
One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take the sky
But ’til that morning
There’s a’nothing can harm you
With daddy and mammy standing by
Note: The song was written for the play Porgy and Bess but, to all of us…you, me and the bedpost…Summertime is here today
so I expect you to sing.
alan
