title: Summertime (Janis Joplin version)
key: Jazz
harp type: Chromatic
genre: Bb
skill: Any

By: George & Ira Gershwin,
DuBose & Dorothy Heyward
Janis Joplin
Key: Gm
Time: 6/8
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|-7*-77-6*7-7 -7* 8 -9*|
-9… -9 8 -7*| |8… 8 -7* -7|
-7*-9 9…| |-7*… -7 7 -6*|
|7… -7…| |-7*… 8…|
|-9… -9* -9 8-7*|
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Sum-mer-time, time, time,
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Child, the liv-in’s eas-y.
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Fish are jump-in’ now
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And the cot-ton, Lord,
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Cot-ton’s high, Lord so high.
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Your dad-dy’s rich
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And your ma’s so good-look-in’, babe.
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She’s look-in’ good now,
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Hush, ba-by, ba-by, ba-by, ba-by,
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Ba-by N-no, no, no, no,
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Don’t you cry, don’t you cry.
instrumental break
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One of these morn-ings
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You’re gon-na rise, rise up sing-ing,
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You’re gon-na spread your wings,
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child,
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And take, take to the sky,
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Lord, the sky.
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Un-til the morn-ing,
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Hon-ey, n-noth-ing’s go-in’ to harm you, now
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No, no, no no, no no, no…
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Ba-by N-no, no, no, no,
7 7 7-6*7
Don’t you cry