PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
035 - Summertime
Verse 1
Summer time,
an’ the liv-in’ is eas-y
fish are jump-in’,
an’ the cot-ton is high.
Oh, yo’ dad-dy’s rich,
an’ yo’ ma is good-look-in’,
so hush lit-tle ba-by,
do-n’ yo’cry.
[Instrumental Re-introduction]
Verse 2
One of these morn-in’s,
you goin’ to rise up sing-in’
then you’ll spread yo’ wings,
an’ you’ll take to the sky.
But till that morn-in’,
there’s a noth-in’ can harm you,
With Dad-dy an’ mam-my
sta-n-din’ by.
An aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward