{"id":11068,"date":"2022-06-23T06:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T06:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:40:29","slug":"summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Summertime chords *\r\n \r\nGeorge Gershwin  1934 (George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.\r\nThe lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based,\r\nand Ira Gershwin)\r\n \r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Summertime_(George_Gershwin_song)\r\n \r\n      Em<\/span>   Am<\/span> Em<\/span>        Am<\/span>        Em<\/span>   Am<\/span> Em<\/span>\r\nSummertime,     and the livin' is easy\r\n         Am<\/span>                        B7<\/span>  C7<\/span> B7<\/span>\r\nFish are jumpin' and the cotton is high\r\n             Em<\/span>   Am<\/span> Em<\/span>          Am<\/span>           Em<\/span>     Am<\/span> Em<\/span>\r\nYour daddy's rich,      and your momma's good lookin'\r\n   G<\/span>           A7<\/span>    B7<\/span>        Em<\/span>   Am<\/span> Em<\/span>\r\nSo hush little baby, don't you cry\r\n \r\nEm<\/span>                    Am<\/span> Em<\/span>              Am<\/span>      Em<\/span>     Am<\/span> Em<\/span>\r\nOne of these mornings,      you're gonna rise up singing\r\n            Am<\/span>                                        B7<\/span>  C7<\/span> B7<\/span>\r\nThen you'll spread your wings, and you'll take to the sky\r\n\r\n              Em<\/span>      Am<\/span> Em<\/span>          Am<\/span>          Em<\/span>      Am<\/span> Em<\/span>\r\nBut till that morning,     there's a nothin' can harm you\r\n     G<\/span>         A7<\/span>     B7<\/span>       Em<\/span>   Am<\/span> Em<\/span>\r\nWith daddy and mammy, standing by\r\n \r\n* my rendition :) use a capo to suite your voice\r\n \r\n Alternates:\r\n \r\nCapo II\r\n \r\nEm<\/span> = Dm<\/span>\r\nAm<\/span> = Gm<\/span>\r\nB7<\/span> = A7<\/span>\r\nC7<\/span> = Bb<\/span>\r\nG<\/span>  = F<\/span>\r\nA7<\/span> = G7<\/span>\r\n \r\nCapo V\r\n \r\nEm<\/span> = Bm<\/span>\r\nAm<\/span> = Em<\/span>\r\nB7<\/span> = F#7<\/span>\r\nC7 = G7\r\nG  = D\r\nA7 = E7\r\n \r\nOpen (These chords are not in the original key)\r\n \r\nEm = Am\r\nAm = Dm\r\nB7 = E7\r\nC7 = F7\r\nG  = C\r\nA7 = D7\r\n \r\nSet8\r\n
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SHEET MUSIC Summertime chords * George Gershwin 1934 (George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin) https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Summertime_(George_Gershwin_song) Em Am Em Am Em Am Em Summertime, and the livin’ … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSummertime<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29058,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/29058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}