It's Summertime...

[Lynda Kamrath]

"It's summertime, and the living is easy

The fish are jumpin. and the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich, and your momma's good lookin'

So hush little baby, don't you cry."

Favorite song for singing to my boys in the hammock.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Great song Lynda!  Libby has no favorite, she just listens to music all day long with me!  No matter what I am doing, there is music playing:)  Oh and yes, it is summertime, especially here in Fresno!  Suppose to be 104 by Sunday:(

[Janie, Jackson and Jilly]

It sounds like a cute song but I don't know the melody! I think we need a video!!

[Lynda Kamrath]

It's from Porgy and Bess, I think.  A great, great Negro spiritual.  It just seems to come to mind as soon as my butt hits the hammock.

[Janie, Jackson and Jilly]

I found this! Now it's in my head too! : )

http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/ella_fitzgerald_sings_summertime...

[Lynda Kamrath]

Thanks.  Love it.  I remember it being sung by a man with a fantastic deep voice, but Ella Fitzgerald does a great job of it also.  Yeah, it really does stick in your head.  And it was a lullaby, not a spiritual, but I think of it as a spiritual.  Love this.  Thanks for sharing.

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

Certainly is summer here in New York today.  Went from a chilly, rainy few days over Memorial weekend and then a lovely monday to 90's and NY famous HHH (hazy hot and humid) today!  Enjoy the sunshine, all those fortunate enough to have some! 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

One of my favorites.

[Lynda Kamrath]

Hey, Nancy, do you know the origin of that song?  Janie wants to know and needs to hear the tune.  BTW, love the photo of the dogs in the speedboat.  Now that would make a great canvas.

[Lynette Main]

Sang to my human kids a long time ago. Music on most of the time at my house.No doodles dancing dancin on the ceiling..