Summertime

Summertime es una canción de George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin y DuBose Heyward, escrita para la ópera Porgy and Bess allá por 1935.

Tiene miles y miles de versiones, es imposible no haberla escuchado alguna vez pero no se si alguien sabe que es una canción de cuna basada en una vieja melodía de Ucrania llamada "Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon" (A dream passes by the windows)

Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon Ukrainian lullaby
The dream passes by the window, and sleep by the fence
the dream asks sleep: "where should we rest tonight?"
where the house is warm, where the child is small, there we will go,
and rock the child to sleep there we will sleep,
and will rock the child: sleep, sleep, my dear, sleep, sleep, my dove.
Summertime, and the livin' is easy fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.

Your daddy's rich and your mamma's good lookin' so hush little baby, don't you cry.

One of these mornings, you're going to rise up singing then you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky.

But till that morning there's a'nothing can harm you with daddy and mamma standing by.

Bella y sin embargo, cuando se escucha Your daddy's rich and your mamma's good lookin'so hush little baby, don't you cry (Tu papi es rico y tu mami es bella así que no llores, bebé) no sé por qué, algo deja de ser tan bello como aparentaba.

Summertime Billie Holiday