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 mornin's you're gonna rise up singin'
Then you'll spread your wings, and you'll take to the sky
But 'till that mornin' there's a nothin' can harm you,
with Daddy and Mammy standin' by . . .

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But 'till that mornin' there's a nothin' can harm you,
with Daddy and Mammy standin' by . . .

Standing by . . .

Music by George Gershwin
with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Du Bose Heyward, 1933