Summertime:Ricky Nelson.
#111 CASH BOX and #89 on BB Hot 100
on IMPERIAL Records in 1962.
Album - Album Seven By Rick.
(A different take on an old standard.)
INTRO: E G Em G..E G E G..E G D E G Em G..
#1.
Em
Summertime, and the livin' is easy.
G D Am A Bm B
Fish are jump-in' and the cotton is high.
B Em G Em G Em
Your Daddy's rich and your Ma is good lookin'.
G Em G A D Em G Em
So, hush little baby, don't you cry.
#2.
Gm7 E Em G Em
One of these mornin's you're gonna rise up
singin'.
G A G A G
You're gonna spread your wings, and take to
B
the sky.
#3.
B Em G Em
But until that mornin', you know nothin' gonna
G
harm you.
G A Bm Em G
Cause your Daddy and Mommy, they're standin' by.
INTERLUDE: Em G Em G Em E G A B Gm7 Em G E G Em
G A G Em G E
#4.
E Em G Em
Well, one of these mornings you're gonna rise up
singing.
G A Am A
Gonna spread your wings (in summertime) and take
Em Bm B
to the sky-y-y.
Em G
But until that mornin' (in summertime) well, there's
Em G
nothin' gonna harm you (in summertime) with your Daddy
Am Em G Em
and Mommy, they're standin' by.
OUTRO:
Em G Em G Em
Awww, summertime (summertime) summertime (summertime)
G Em
well, summertime (summertime) summertime..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
