JANIS JOPLIN - Summertime lyrics

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Summertime,<br>Child, you're living easy.<br>Fish are, fish are jumping out<br>And the cotton, lord,<br>Cotton's high, lord, so high.<br><br>Your daddy's rich,<br>When your ma, oh honey thinks she's mighty good-looking, babe.<br>I said she's looking pretty fine to me right now,<br>Don't you know she is.<br>Whoa, hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,<br>No, no, no, no, no, don't you cry.<br>Oh honey you'd better not cry<br>'cause they're gonna kick you up if when you want to do nothing,<br>Take it from me!<br>Cry.<br><br>Whoa, one of these mornings,<br>Child, you'll rise up singing, baby, oh.<br>I said you're gonna wanna go, honey, spread your wings,<br>Yeah, child, you take, take to the sky,<br>Lord, the sky.<br><br>Until that morning,<br>Honey, no-no-no-nothing's going to harm you, babe,<br>I said honey nothing's ever gonna let you down,<br>'cause I just wouldn't let them do it , no, no, no, no, no,<br>Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,<br>No, no, no, no, no,<br>Don't you cry, oh no,<br>Cry.