Summertime lyrics....

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

not just one of the best summer songs, but one of the best songs.

kinks rule

The taxman's taken all my dough

and left me in my stately home
lazing on a sunny afternoon.
And I can't sail my yacht

he's taken ev'rything I've got;
all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

Save me
save me
save me from this squeeze

I've got a big fat momma tyin' to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly

live this life of luxury:
lazing on a sunny afternoon

in Summertime
in summertime

in summertime.

My girlfriend's gone off with my car

and gone back to her ma and pa

telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty.
Now I'm sitting here

sipping at my icecold beer

lazing on a sunny afternoon.

Help me
help me
help me sail away

you give me two good reasons why I ought to stay.
'Cos I love to live so pleasantly

live this life of luxury:
lazing on a sunny afternoon

in Summertime
in summertime

in summertime.

 

[Wilka]

Every day it comes to this
Catch the things you might have missed
You say, get back to yesterday
I ain't ever going back
Back to the place that I can't stand
But I miss the way you lie
I'm always misunderstood
Pulled apart and ripped into
But I miss the way you lie

Catch the sun, before it's gone
Here it comes, up in smoke and gone
Catch the sun, it never comes
Cry in the sand, lost in the fire

I never really understood
Why I didn't feel so good
But I miss the way you lie
I've always been up and down
Never wanted to hit the ground
But I miss the way you lie

Catch the sun, before it's gone
Here it comes, up in smoke and gone
Catch the sun, it never comes
Cry in the sand, lost in the fire


Tuneeeeeeeee

 

[The Large One]

It was a hot afternoon,
Last day of June,
And the sun was a demon,
The clouds were afraid,
One-ten in the shade,
And the pavement was steaming.
I told Billy-Ray,
In his red Chevrolet,
I needed time for some thinking,
I was just walking by,
When I looked in her eye,
And I swore it was winking.

She was 31 and I was 17,
I knew nothing about love, she knew everything,
When I saw down beside her on the front porch swing,
And wondered what the coming night would bring.

The sun closed her eyes,
As it climbed in the sky,
And it started to swelter,
The sweat trickled down the front of her gown,
And I thought it would melt her.

She through back her hair,
Like I wasn't there,
And she sipped on a julep*,
Her shoulders were bare,
And I tried not to stare,
When I looked at her lips.

And when she looked at me,
I heard her softly say,
I know you're young,
You don't know what to do or say,
But stay with me until the sun has gone away,
And I will chase the boy in you away.

And then she smiled and we talked for a while,
And we walked for a mile to the sea,
We sat on the sand, and the boy took her hand,
But I saw the sun rise as a man.

Ten years have gone by,
Since I looked in her eye,
But the memory lingers,
I got back in my mind,
To the very first time,
And feel the touch of her fingers,

It was a hot afternoon,
Last day of June,
And the sun was a demon,
The clouds were afraid,
One-ten in the shade,
And the pavement was steaming...

That song sits at the very high altar of cheese, and I am in awe of it. It is also a permanent reminder of how 30-something women are swayed by young teenage pups when the sun is out and the sap is on the rise. Fine if you are that teenage pup, but a little disconcerting if you live with that 30-something minx.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Do some people wind up with the one that they adore
In a heart-shaped hotel room it’s what a heart is for
The bubble floats so madly will it stay sky-high?
Hello partner, kiss your name bye-bye

Ooh sometimes...

Romantic piscean seeks angel in disguise
Chinese-speaking girlfriend big brown eyes
Liverpudlian lady, sophisticated male
Hello partner, tell me love can’t fail

And it’s you and me in the summertime
We’ll be hand in hand down in the park
With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
And all the sunshine banishes the dark

Do some people wind up with the one that they abhor
In a distant hell-hole room, the third world war
But all I see is films where colourless despair
Meant angry young men with immaculate hair

Ooh sometimes...

Get up a voice inside says there’s no time for looking down
Only a pound a word & you’re talking to the town
But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart
Just to touch a lonely heart

And it’s you and me in the summertime
We’ll be hand down in the park
With a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
And all the sunshine banishes the dark
And it’s you I need in the summertime
As I turn my white skin red
Two peas from the same pod yes we are
Or have I read too much fiction?
Is this how it happens?
How does it happen?
Is this how it happens?
Now, right now

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I'm a gonna raise a fuss

I'm a gonna raise a holler

about a workin' all summer
just to try to earn a dollar

ev'ry time I call my Baby

try to get a date

my Boss says
No dice, Son,you gotta work late
.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do

but there ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues.

A well my Mom 'n' Papa told me

Son, you gotta make some money,if you wantta use the carto go a ridin' next Sunday,
well
I didn't go to work
told the Boss I was sick
Now you can't use the car,'cause you didn't work a lick.

(I'm gonna) take two weeks
gonna have a fine vacation
I'm gonna take my problem
to the United Nations !
Well
I called my Congressmen
and he quote
I'd like to help you, Son,but you're too young to vote
.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do

but there ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues

 

[WATFORD zero]

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Doo da doo doo da dadoo
Doo da Doo
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Doo da doo doo da dadoo
Doo da Doo
Doo da Doo
Doo da doo

Take five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

 

[Parson Henry]

When I wake up in the morning
love
and the sun light hurts my eyes

And something without worning
love
bears heavy on my mind.
Then I look at you and the world's alright with me

Just one look at you and I know it's gonna be -

A lovely day - lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
lovely day

Lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
lovely day.
A lovely day - lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
lovely day

Lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
lovely day.

When the day that lies ahead of me seems impossible to face

And someone else instead of me always seems to know the way
Then I look at you and the world's alright with me

Just one look at you and I know it's gonna be -

A lovely day - lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
...
When the day that lies ahead of me seems impossible to face
...
A lovely day - lovely day
lovely day
lovely day
lovely day

 

[Hadlee]

Your'e Plymouth dealer is a deeeealing man yeah yeah

I'm a Plymouth dealer, a dealing man and right now I'm giving you the best deal ever on the new Plymouth bacaroda....

Hey man, the name of the Plymouth fastback is the baracuda

I can't pronounce bacaroda

Try this...say ba

ba

Ra

ra

cu

cu

da

da

Now put it all together........

BABARARACUCUDADA !!

 

[Parson Henry]

Your'e Plymouth dealer is a deeeealing man yeah yeah

I'm a Plymouth dealer, a dealing man and right now I'm giving you the best deal ever on the new Plymouth bacaroda....

Hey man, the name of the Plymouth fastback is the baracuda

I can't pronounce bacaroda

Try this...say ba

ba

Ra

ra

cu

cu

da

da

Now put it all together........

BABARARACUCUDADA !!

Voice over of Leslie Neilson.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Well it is our birth right to be discontented
Don't tell us that the world is lemon scented
You say you had it much harder
Tell me exactly how
No it doesn't have to be so complicated
Now every little thing has become outdated
Now we don't have to leave our chair
To go anywhere

Life will be the death of me
Sitting in between four walls
Life will be the death of me
There's no reason to leave at all

We just don't need this weighty pressure
Surely you must think its for the better
But listen kids whatever it is
I'm sure its no big deal

Let's try to look from a wider angle
Please let's not fly off the handle
I know I can assure you that
We have it hard enough

Life will be the death of me
Sitting in between four walls
Life will be the death of me
There's no reason to leave at all

Life will be the death of me
Sitting in between four walls
Life will be the death of me
There's no reason to leave at all

Oh oh-oh oh oh
Life will be the death of me

What a fine track that is.

 

[Curious Orange]

It’s late in the day,
I’m thinking of you,
Things that you say.
So long,
So long for me,

It’s late in the day,
I’m talking to you
Hear what I say,
So long,
So long for me,

All the time I thought of you ,
In an ordinary way,
You slip back down the heart away,
All I really have to say
Is people pass along the way,
Thoughts of you and me again,

I lay on my bed,
Searching my mind,
Writing my love,
So long,
So long for me,

I sleep on the road,
Dreaming of a sound,
Coming my way,
So long,
So long for me,

All the time I thought of you,
In an ordinary way,
Check back down the heart away,
And all I really have to say
Is people pass along the way,
Thoughts of you and me again,

All the time I thought of you,
In an ordinary way,
You slip back down the heart away,
And all I really have to say
Is people pass along the way,
I close my eyes and turn away,
All the time I think of you,
In an ordinary day,
Check back down the heart away,
And all I really have to say
There’s people passin’ ’long the way,
Thoughts of you and me again!

 

[Man of Harveys]

It’s late in the day,
I’m thinking of you,
Things that you say.
So long,
So long for me,

It’s late in the day,
I’m talking to you
Hear what I say,
So long,
So long for me,

All the time I thought of you ,
In an ordinary way,
You slip back down the heart away,
All I really have to say
Is people pass along the way,
Thoughts of you and me again,

I lay on my bed,
Searching my mind,
Writing my love,
So long,
So long for me,

I sleep on the road,
Dreaming of a sound,
Coming my way,
So long,
So long for me,

All the time I thought of you,
In an ordinary way,
Check back down the heart away,
And all I really have to say
Is people pass along the way,
Thoughts of you and me again,

All the time I thought of you,
In an ordinary way,
You slip back down the heart away,
And all I really have to say
Is people pass along the way,
I close my eyes and turn away,
All the time I think of you,
In an ordinary day,
Check back down the heart away,
And all I really have to say
There’s people passin’ ’long the way,
Thoughts of you and me again!

What a ludicrously good call on a fine song that is - just reading that puts me in North Laine on a hot day.

 

[Parson Henry]

What a ludicrously good call on a fine song that is - just reading that puts me in North Laine on a hot day.

What is so summery about it?

 

[Man of Harveys]

What is so summery about it?

True - it's not "ooh ain't the sun out and it's nice today" obvious but, in the context of the music etc - perfect. You can almost smell the salt from having swum in the sea.

 

[bhafc99]

Given Grant's untimely death at the weekend, it has to be one of the Go-Betweens' many many songs where you can just feel the scorching heat of an Australian summer. Streets of our town, Spring rain, Draining the pool for you, Love is a sign... so many to choose from. But I've gone for Bye Bye Pride.


A white moon appears
Like a hole in the sky,
The mangroves go quiet.
In la Brisa de la Palma
A teenage Rasputin
Takes the sting from a gin.
"When a woman learns to walk
She's not dependent anymore."
A line from her letter, May 24.
And out on the bay
The current is strong
A boat can go lost.
But I didn't know someone
Could be so lonesome
Didn't know a heart
Could be tied up
And held for ransom.
Until you take your shoes
And go outside, stride over stride.
Walk to that tide because
The door is open wide.

Turned the fan off
And went for a walk
By the lights down on Shield Street.
The birds in the trees
Open their wings ...
He goes home again.
He dreams resistance,
They talk commitment,
Things change over long distance.
Took the shirt off his back
The eyes from his head
And left him for dead.
But I didn't know someone
Could be so lonesome
Didn't know a heart
Could be tied up
And held for ransom.
Until you take your shoes
And go outside, stride over stride,
Walk to that tide because
The door is open wide.

Little lies, they'll take your pride.
Until you take your shoes
And go outside. stride over stride,
Walk to that tide because
The door is open wide.
Stride over stride
Walk to that tide.
Bye, Bye Pride.
Because the door is open wide.
The door is always open wide.
The door is always open wide.

 

[Parson Henry]

True - it's not "ooh ain't the sun out and it's nice today" obvious but, in the context of the music etc - perfect. You can almost smell the salt from having swum in the sea.

Oh you mean like 'Year of the Cat ' and ' Hotel California'?

 

[Man of Harveys]

The fact that the magnificent "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" by Roy Ayres isn't on here yet is due to the simple fact that I can't find the lyrics on the web.

 

[Parson Henry]

The fact that the magnificent "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" by Roy Ayres isn't on here yet is due to the simple fact that I can't find the lyrics on the web.

Enjoy the long hot summer outside the 'Noster tonight..

 

[Icy Gull]

How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain?
How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame?
Who gets to say?
Who gets to work and who gets to play?
I was always told at school, everybody should get the same.

How many times have you been told if you don't ask you don't get?
How many times have you wasted your money? your Mother said you shouldnt bet.
Who has the fun?
Is it always a man with a gun?
Someone must have told you if you work to hard you can sweat?

There's always the sun.
mmmm
There's always the sun.
Always, always,always the sun.

How many times has the weatherman told you stories that made you laugh?
You know its not upto the Politicians and leaders, when they do things by halves.
Who gets the job?
Of pushing the knob.
Thats what responsibility you draw straws for if your mad enough.

There's always the sun.
mmmm
There's always the sun.
Always, always,always the sun.

There's always the sun.
mmmm
There's always the sun.
Always, always,always the sun.

 

[The Large One]

When the sun beats down
And burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fireproof

Under the boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be having some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be making love
(Under the boardwalk, boardwalk)

From the park you'll hear
The happy sound of a carousel
You can almost taste the hot dogs
And french fries they sell

Under the boardwalk
Down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be having some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be making love
(Under the boardwalk, boardwalk)

Oh, under the boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be having some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be falling in love
(Under the boardwalk, boardwalk)