Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_bob-crosby-and-his-orchestra-george-gershwin-ira-gershwin_gbia0008484a
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_bob-crosby-and-his-orchestra-ira-gershwin-george-gershwin_gbia0001139a
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_charlie-spivak-and-his-orchestra-du-bose-heyward-george-gershwin_gbia0002902a
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_gershwin-boyd-raeburn-and-his-orchestra-johnny-bothwell_gbia0000790a
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_mildred-bailey-red-norvo-and-his-music-gershwin_gbia0035224b
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_morris-lane-with-his-combo-d.-heywood-g.-gershwin_gbia0007984b
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_ray-heatherton-with-orchestra-heyward-gershwin_gbia0004195a
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_sanford--herman-hertz-gershwin_gbia0006760a
https://archive.org/details/78_summertime_tommy-dorsey-and-his-orchestra-ira-gershwin-george-gershwin_gbia0019879b
Publication Date
1908
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sweetheart, Sweetheart, dry those eyes of blue,
I’ll come back to you,
With a heart so true,
Springtime’s coming, birds will soon be humming sweetest songs of love to you,
Dear heart, dear heart,
Tell me why you sigh,
Parting time is nigh,
I must say goodbye,
How I yearn and long for my return to you my love, with heart so true.
[Chorus]
Summertime, Summertime,
We will be together, in sunny weather,
Down the lane, once again,
All the World in rhyme;
Summertime, Summertime,
Wedding bells will chime,
All will be sunny, peaches, cream and honey,
In the Summertime.
[Verse 2]
Sweetheart, Sweetheart, in the twilight glow,
Where the roses grow,
I will whisper low,
Loves sweet story told in all its glory where the waters gently flow,
Dear heart, dear heart, ‘neath the moonlit sky,
We must say good-bye,
Night birds sing on high,
In the trees, they sing their melodies and seem to know I love you so.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Tilzer, Harry Von and Mahoney, Jack, "Summertime" (1908). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1473.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1473
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 37 W. 28th St., (1908)
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