The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1555   Message #740881
Posted By: SharonA
02-Jul-02 - 03:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Summertime (Gershwin, et al.)
Subject: ADD Version: Summertime (Gershwin/Heyward)
Once again, "Rise Up Singing" didn't get it quite right (now there's a surprise). According to Joe Offer's later post on the "Summertime" thread (thread id=4175), the lyrics and the writers differ somewhat:

SUMMERTIME
(Words and music by George Gershwin, DuBose & Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin)

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

One of these mornings
You're goin' to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take the sky
But till that morning
There's a nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by

Words and music by George Gershwin, DuBose & Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
Copyright © 1935 by George Gershwin Music, administered by Warner (WB Music Corp)


(I don't know why people insist on adding the word "to" and making it "you'll take to the sky", but they do – just another pet peeve of mine!!)