Summertime
Summertime
Doc Watson
Billy Strings
Key
Chords
Am7
B7
C
Em7
F#m7
G
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Lyrics
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 singin'
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take the sky
But 'til that mornin', there's a-nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mommy standin' by
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About This Song
Summertime is the Gershwin jazz standard from the opera "Porgy and Bess" that's been adapted into bluegrass repertoire. Doc Watson's fingerstyle arrangement became the definitive bluegrass version, and more recently Billy Strings has popularized it with a fresh take that's bringing it back into jam rotation.
