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In The Good Old Summer Time

Words by Ren Shields, Music by George Evans - 1902

A big hit of the early 1900's.

Verse:
C	-	-	C7
F	-	C	G7
C	-	-	-         Cm6
G	D7	G7	-
C	-	-	-
F	-	C	-
F        F#dim	C	F#dim	C        Cm6
G	D7	G7	-
Chorus:
C	-	-	C7
F	-	C	G7
C	-	-           E7	Am
D7	-	G7	-
C	-	-	-         C7
F	-	C	G7
C	-	-           E7	Am
D7	F         G7	C	-  (G7 to chorus)

12-beat intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in 3/4 waltz time.

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Verse:

There's a time in each year that we always hold dear:

Good Old Summer Time.

With the birds and the treeses and sweet scented breezes:

Good Old Summer Time.

When your day's work is over, then you are in clover,

And life is one beautiful rhyme.

No trouble annoying, each one is enjoying the

Good Old Summer Time.

 

Chorus:

In The Good Old Summer Time.

In The Good Old Summer Time.

Strolling down the shady lanes,

With your baby mine.

You hold her hand and she holds yours,

And that's a very good sign,

That she's your "Tootsie Wootsie,"

In The Good Old Summer Time.

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Performer Links:

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Listen to the Banjo Kings perform "In The Good Old Summer Time" 4/4 time (mp3)

 

Listen to Chet Atkins perform "In The Good Old Summer Time" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com