Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Gershwin's aria "Summertime" (Porgy & Bess)... barbershop!
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--- CREDITS
► Composed by George & Ira Gerswin
► Arr. by Richard Lengel: harmonymarketplace.com/112680
► Performed by Julien Neel
► Audio & video editing by Julien Neel

--- ABOUT
"Summertime" is an aria composed by 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, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin. The song is sung multiple times throughout Porgy and Bess. This piece soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote. Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century.

--- LYRICS
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, one of these days
You're going to rise up singing (praise the Lord)
You're gonna spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky

But until that day
There's a'nothing can harm you
So hush little baby don't you cry