{"id":24895,"date":"2023-07-21T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=24895"},"modified":"2023-07-21T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:03:47","slug":"episode-860-summertimeand-the-livin-is-easy-lyrics-by-george-gershwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=24895","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 860 SUMMERTIME\u2026AND THE LIVIN\u2019 IS EASY (LYRICS BY GEORGE GERSHWIN)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 860       SUMMERTIME\u2026AND THE LIVIN\u2019 IS EASY  (LYRICS BY GEORGE GERSHWIN)<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
July 20. 2023<\/div>\n

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TODAY, Woody and I took a drive around our farm.  Hardly a farm any more for we encourage the wilderness<\/div>\n
to return. Today was a day to sing because George Gershwin was right  \u201cthe living\u2019 is easy\u201d.<\/div>\n
A few thoughts in words below\u2026.certainly not Gershwin but you\u2019re \u201cgoing to rise up singing\u201d as I have on<\/div>\n
this summer day (July 21, 2063)<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe bees got to humming<\/div>\n
And blue is the sky<\/div>\n
Marjorie is mowing<\/div>\n
I won\u2019t even try<\/div>\n

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The clover field<\/div>\n
will be sweet in the winter<\/div>\n
when these fields of green<\/div>\n
will be hard to recall\u201d<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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What is Marjorie holding?   Seems alive\u2026wild\u2026frisky\u2026take a guess.<\/div>\n

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Summertime<\/a>\u201d by <\/span>George Gershwin<\/a> was written by <\/span>Ira Gershwin<\/a>, <\/span>DuBose Heyward<\/a> & <\/span>George Gershwin<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Summertime<\/span>
And the livin’ is easy<\/span>
Fish are jumpin’<\/span>
And the cotton is high<\/span>
Oh, your daddy’s rich<\/span>
And your ma is good-lookin’<\/span>
So hush, little baby<\/span>
Don’t you cry<\/span>

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One of these mornings<\/span>
You’re going to rise up singing<\/span>
Then you’ll spread your wings<\/span>
And you’ll take the sky<\/span>
But ’til that morning<\/span>
There’s a’nothing can harm you<\/span>
With daddy and mammy standing by<\/span>
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Note: The song was written for the play Porgy and Bess but, to all of us\u2026you, me and the bedpost\u2026Summertime is here today<\/div>\n
so I expect you to sing.  <\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n
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EPISODE 860       SUMMERTIME\u2026AND THE LIVIN\u2019 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  \u201cthe living\u2019 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}