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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 mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by
One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by
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 mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by
One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by
| drewd | Posted: Dec 04, 2012 - 18:45 jberko wrote: How can you not rate this a ten?
I agree, one of the best (IMO) versions of this song I have heard. The acoustic work was beautiful... |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: Dec 04, 2012 - 18:38 jhorton wrote: This is like, the hundredth best version of this song. I hear you. There are much better versions out there..play Fricking Ella and Louie's version ,Sam Cooke or Miles or..jeez anyone's other than this butchery... |
| ch83575 | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 16:47 What a great duo... doesn't get much better. I am a huge fan of the Garcia and Grisman work (and Jerry Garcia in general), but Doc can do wonders on that flat-top. Good thing I don't have to choose one or the other  |
| BBOGDA (Oswego) | Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 12:04 Very nice. |
| jhorton (Trailer Park on Cape Cod) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 18:38 This is like, the hundredth best version of this song. |
| jberko (Franklin, TN) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 18:37 How can you not rate this a ten? |
| oldviolin (Esse Quam Videri) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 12:31  |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 12:29 Doc rocked..but please don't play this into the ground..been getting A LOT of plays lately...how about some of his other tunes? |
| djaychicago (In a far, far better place) | Posted: May 29, 2012 - 18:00 The mandolin is wonderful! Great song. Doc will be missed.
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| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: May 29, 2012 - 17:58  RIP, Doc. |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 12:22 plaid wrote: Well, that was pasty and white bread agreed, Ella and Louie it ain't |
| Kahoona | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 12:20 Thar Grissman! He has such a sweet unique mandolin ! |
| plaid (Tech nexxus o' my house) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 18:52 Well, that was pasty and white bread |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 08:07 What a wonderful version of this classic! |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 08:06 forge wrote: Heard the first chords and thought it was gonna be Leon Redbone. This is nice too however! I like Leon Redbone, but his act is just that: an act. Mssrs. Watson and Grisman are the real deal through and through. |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 14:20 Started out sounding like the Mills Bros. Very nice song. |
| iTuner | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 14:20 Thank god its not Redbone. This is just well done. My office mate would be ripping the skin off his death metal face though if he heard it. |
| justlistening (So. California) | Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 17:48 Vocals: can't complain at all |
| (former member) | Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 09:06 Proof that RP is better than terrestrial radio. MORE, please. |
| forge (Boynton Beach, FL) | Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 11:27 Heard the first chords and thought it was gonna be Leon Redbone. This is nice too however! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Dec 21, 2010 - 23:10 Doc Watson - Summertime, Live "how many things a man can do in the first position of a folk guitar... and how is it magic the fact that everything he sings bocomes a country ballad... this is pure 1°class! " johnjtheoriginal
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| mapman | Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 18:27 nice version. nice recording! love doc watson! |
| triskele (here) | Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 18:26 saw these two perform together..maybe it was a tour to promote this album? it was a looong time ago...and an AMAZING show. |
| nerakdon (Colorado) | Posted: Sep 30, 2010 - 10:34 Doc Watson: Almost as hawt as Feynman. |
| Centabor | Posted: Aug 29, 2010 - 10:48 mmMMMMMmmmmmmmmm...YumYo !! Hiagree.. |
| unclelonghair | Posted: Aug 29, 2010 - 10:47 Woo hoo! More Doc! Doc Watson is still going strong at age 87, he is touring right now I believe. Get yourself out there and see a living legend! |
| Mugro (My body is in Dubai, my heart is in Red Sox Nation) | Posted: Aug 29, 2010 - 10:46 gatorade wrote: I'm in heaven. Doc was fantastic. Grisman is fantastic. Together they are righteous. Such a pleasure to hear you play this.  Love it! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 18:12  Doc and Rosalee Watson by ~Kissfan8198 ©2008-2010 ~Kissfan8198 Spontaneous portrait taken of Doc, and wife, Rosalee Watson at MerleFest 2008. Published in The Cougar Cry, student newwspaper; Spring 2008 edition. . ————————————————————————————————————————————- Doc Watson and David Grisman - Summertime, Live (1998) |
| MaryM (WeHo CA) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 18:08 Stefen wrote: I've never heard a version of this song I didn't like. My thoughts exactly, must own 7 or 8 different versions, this is a first for me! |
| Stefen (West Hollywood, CA) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 20:01 I've never heard a version of this song I didn't like. |
| gatorade (Ocean Park, WA) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 20:01 I'm in heaven. Doc was fantastic. Grisman is fantastic. Together they are righteous. Such a pleasure to hear you play this. |
| parttime (Kona Hawaii) | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 10:24 nate917 wrote: So blindness is the reason for that look on his face on the album cover? My money was on constipation. Clearly that comment belays your intelligent's |
| ambrebalte (Beijing) | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 10:15 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: Aural_not_Oral wrote: Agree with fredriley , I'd rather hear the original, or probably any other version of this song. Have you heard the original? It's a song out of an opera, so it's in orchestral form, but it's not exactly enthusiastic. You can check out an orchestral version here. SummertimeLove Doc Watson guitar, but this is just a dull cover. David Grisman always hits me as being akin to watching golf on Sunday. I respect fredriley's opinion a lot (maybe more than anyone else on RP) but it was clear that he didn't put this song in it's appropriate cultural context (being British and all), and he's said as much. These guys to a pretty good job of capturing the appropriate mood, in my opinion. Maybe not as good as the original, but playing this song as an uptempo, happy tune would be to spit in the face of thousands of slaves. Even Gershwin himself got grief from critics and commentators for trivializing the African American experience. I agree very much with you Ag3. But I find this version very good also. I try to remember that the slaves who created the music in which or for which Summertime was written, were themselves under the influence of another music (amongst others like gospel or African music) who grounded what you call folk music in America, isn't it? And folk as well conveys melancholy. It's called the blues. It's where jazz meets folks |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 10:13 This is a great song to hear on a rainy day and dream about summer. Thanks, Bill.  |
| Captn_Pea (Spring Lake, MI) | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 10:10 Make it stop.... It's going to ruin my snow and I still have skiing to do this winter.... :-) |
| Coaxial (23 miles north/northeast of Paradis) | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 14:24 That was great. |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 13:52 fredriley wrote: Ah right, thanks for the context - I've never seen the opera so have only ever heard the song on its own, and misinterpreted the lyrics. I sit corrected :( Fred- In the states we call that a "facial". Shit happens....you didn't know. |
| nate917 (2,815 miles from home) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 13:52 So blindness is the reason for that look on his face on the album cover? My money was on constipation. |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 13:49 Pretty good for a blind guy, huh? j/k. Doc Watson is the real deal, love all of his stuff. That other guy's okay too... Would love to hear Doc's take on 'Columbus Stockade Blues' here sometime... |
| Ag3nt0rang3 (Canada) | Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 07:20 Aural_not_Oral wrote: Agree with fredriley , I'd rather hear the original, or probably any other version of this song. Have you heard the original? It's a song out of an opera, so it's in orchestral form, but it's not exactly enthusiastic. You can check out an orchestral version here. SummertimeLove Doc Watson guitar, but this is just a dull cover. David Grisman always hits me as being akin to watching golf on Sunday. I respect fredriley's opinion a lot (maybe more than anyone else on RP) but it was clear that he didn't put this song in it's appropriate cultural context (being British and all), and he's said as much. These guys to a pretty good job of capturing the appropriate mood, in my opinion. Maybe not as good as the original, but playing this song as an uptempo, happy tune would be to spit in the face of thousands of slaves. Even Gershwin himself got grief from critics and commentators for trivializing the African American experience. |
| Aural_not_Oral (End of the Oregon Trail) | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 10:47 Agree with fredriley , I'd rather hear the original, or probably any other version of this song. Love Doc Watson guitar, but this is just a dull cover. David Grisman always hits me as being akin to watching golf on Sunday. fredriley wrote: Nope, way too laid back, twee, and unemotional. This should be an enthusiastic song full of joie de vivre, played with loud horns and sung with a rough loud voice. This has all the joie de vivre of a wet dishcloth. ... |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 10:45 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: I can't agree with you there. The narrator of the song is a black slave, singing a lullaby to the master's child. It should be melancholy and bitter, not enthusiastic. Ah right, thanks for the context - I've never seen the opera so have only ever heard the song on its own, and misinterpreted the lyrics. I sit corrected :( |
| Ag3nt0rang3 (Canada) | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 10:41 fredriley wrote: Nope, way too laid back, twee, and unemotional. This should be an enthusiastic song full of joie de vivre, played with loud horns and sung with a rough loud voice. This has all the joie de vivre of a wet dishcloth. I can't agree with you there. The narrator of the song is a black slave, singing a lullaby to the master's child. It should be melancholy and bitter, not enthusiastic. |
| jadewahoo (Beautiful Earth) | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 10:40 What a brilliant rendition by two of Americana's finest! |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 10:38 Nope, way too laid back, twee, and unemotional. This should be an enthusiastic song full of joie de vivre, played with loud horns and sung with a rough loud voice. This has all the joie de vivre of a wet dishcloth. This brings back an awful memory. I was part of a school brass band when 15 or so, playing the trumpet, and volunteered to do this as a solo. The very first note is top F sharp, and needless to say I completely fluffed it, coming out with a painful croak, which rather set the tone for the rest of the recital. That was the last solo I ever did - teach me to pick something so hard :( Thank you for sharing. I feel 'closure' now ;) |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio Paradise) | Posted: Jun 12, 2009 - 14:39  |
| Pyro | Posted: Jun 12, 2009 - 14:39 smehan55 wrote: Doc Watson & David Grisman - Summertime Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer Excellent transition ... great tunes. :-) And again today.... |
| toterola (Further) | Posted: May 11, 2009 - 20:47 Danimal174 wrote: Interesting take on this song. I like the music a lot, but something about an old white dude singing the line "Your pappy's rich" just doesn't quite work for me. Still, the music alone makes this a worthy cover. Sure enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summertime_(song) |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 07:10 Wow. I'm realizing how much great music I have missed in my life - combination of too closed a mind and lack of access I guess. Thanks for playing. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 07:06 That's some guitar playing,,wow !  |