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Summertime - Porgy & Bess




Summertime and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin', and cotton is high.
Oh your daddy's rich, and your ma is good lookin'
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.


One of these mornin's you're goin' to rise up singin',
Then you'll spread you're wings an you'll take the sky.
But till that mornin, there's a-nothin' can harm you
With Daddy and Mammy standin' by.


My Man's Gone Now



My man's gone now
Ain't no use a listenin'
For his tired footsteps
Climbin' up the stairs
Old man sorrow's
Come to keep me company
Whisperin' beside me
When I say my prayers
When I say my prayers
He come aroud
He come up, he come around
Ain't that I mind workin'
Workin' means travelers
Journeyin' togheter
To the promised land
But old man sorrow
Mountin' all the way with me
Tell' me that I'm old now
Since I lose my man
Since I lose my man
Since I lose my man




1926 George Gershwin read Porgy & Bess by DuBose Heyward

As a gifted pianist, George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine) played as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley at age 16. He wrote his first big hit, "Swanee," in 1919. Also during that time he wrote "Stairway to Paradise," "Do it Again," and "Somebody Loves Me." He was handsome and handled himself like a genius.