Released: September 11, 1973
Songwriter: Keni St. Lewis
[Chorus]
Ooh, farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, ooh
[Verse 1]
I found my happiest days
When you came to see your grandma in May
I bumped into you at the corner store
I told you that you sure looked good, now
Your grandma's house was next to mine
We were together most of the time
But summer's gotten away from us
Time's moving too fast for us
Bye-bye, don't turn around
'Cause you might see me cry
[Chorus]
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, ooh yeah
[Verse 2]
When you return to your hometown
And you discuss your trip
Will I be the guy that you put down
Or someone that you don't forget? No
I'll never forget you
And maybe next year when you're out of school
You'll return, but until you do, baby
Bye-bye, don't turn around
You might see me cry
[Chorus]
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, yeah
[Bridge]
Ooh, farewell, farewell
Ooh, farewell, farewell
If you remember my name (Drop a line)
Drop a line sometime, yeah, yeah, ooh
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
[Verse 2 repeated]
When you return to your hometown
And you discuss your trip
Will I be the guy that you put down
Or someone that you don't forget? No
I'll never forget you
And maybe next year when you're out of school
You'll return, but until you do, baby
Bye-bye, don't turn around
You might see me cry
[Chorus]
Farewell my summer love, farewell, ooh yeah
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, yeah, oh yeah
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, farewell yeah, yeah, yeah
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell
Ooh, farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, ooh
[Verse 1]
I found my happiest days
When you came to see your grandma in May
I bumped into you at the corner store
I told you that you sure looked good, now
Your grandma's house was next to mine
We were together most of the time
But summer's gotten away from us
Time's moving too fast for us
Bye-bye, don't turn around
'Cause you might see me cry
[Chorus]
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, ooh yeah
[Verse 2]
When you return to your hometown
And you discuss your trip
Will I be the guy that you put down
Or someone that you don't forget? No
I'll never forget you
And maybe next year when you're out of school
You'll return, but until you do, baby
Bye-bye, don't turn around
You might see me cry
[Chorus]
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, yeah
[Bridge]
Ooh, farewell, farewell
Ooh, farewell, farewell
If you remember my name (Drop a line)
Drop a line sometime, yeah, yeah, ooh
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
[Verse 2 repeated]
When you return to your hometown
And you discuss your trip
Will I be the guy that you put down
Or someone that you don't forget? No
I'll never forget you
And maybe next year when you're out of school
You'll return, but until you do, baby
Bye-bye, don't turn around
You might see me cry
[Chorus]
Farewell my summer love, farewell, ooh yeah
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, yeah, oh yeah
Farewell, my summer love, farewell, farewell yeah, yeah, yeah
Farewell my summer love, farewell
Girl, I won't forget you
Farewell, my summer love, farewell
Unreleased Songs
- Ease on Down the Road #1
- Addams Groove (Family Thing)
- Days in Gloucestershire
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) (Demo Version)
- Todo Para Ti
- Throwing Your Life Away
- Everything’s Just Fine (aka Alright)
- Deep In The Night
- She’s Trouble (Demo Version)
- Faces
- Jane is a Groupie
- Happy Birthday, Lisa
- We Are the World (Original Solo Demo)
- Do You Know Where Your Children Are (Original Version)
- Slave to the Rhythm (Original Version)
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (Original Mix)
- Chicago (Original Version)
- Blue Gangsta (Original Version)
- Xscape (Original Version)
- Dangerous (Early Version)
- Farewell My Summer Love (Original Mix)
- Starlight
- Seeing Voices
- Loving You (Original Version)
- A Place with No Name (Original Version)
- 7 Digits (Snippet)
- Hollywood Tonight (Original Version)
- Get Your Weight Off of Me (Snippets)
- To Make My Father Proud (Original Mix)
- You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me (Original Mix)
- Touch the One You Love (Original Mix)
- Girl You’re So Together (Original Mix)
- Behind the Mask (Original Version)
- Do You Know Where Your Children Are (2010 Version)
- Chicago (2010 Version)
- Love’s Gone Bad
- Slave To The Rhythm (2010 Version)
- Carousel (Shortened Version)
- What About Us
- Call on Me (Original Mix)
- Don’t Let It Get You Down (Original Mix)
- Don’t Believe It (Snippet)
- Price of Fame (Pepsi Version)
- Cheater (2001 Reworked Version)
- Someone Put Your Hand Out (Early Version)
- Groove Of Midnight
- You Were There (Live from Sammy Davis Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration 1989)
- Man in Black
- I’m Still The King
- State of Shock (Alternate Version)
- Melodie (Original Mix)
- The Loser
- If’n I Was God
- Hold My Hand
- (I Can’t Make It) Another Day
- Much Too Soon
- Sunset Driver (Demo)
- The Way You Love Me
- We Are Here to Change the World
- Don’t Be Messin’ ’Round
- I’m So Blue
- We’ve Had Enough
- Song Groove (Abortion Papers)
- All in Your Name
- Free
- Best of Joy
- Someone in the Dark
- We Be Ballin’
- Mind Is the Magic
- Scared of the Moon (Demo)
- Carousel
- Streetwalker
- Fly Away
- Beautiful Girl
- Cheater
- Fall Again
- In the Back
- Monkey Business
- Price of Fame
- Al Capone
- Can’t Get Outta the Rain
- This Is It
- She’s Trouble
- What More Can I Give
- Work That Body
- You Can’t Win
- I Am A Loser
- That’s What Love Is Made Of
- Who’s Lookin’ For A Lover
- Love Never Felt So Good (Original Version)
- Lonely Teardrops
- When I Come Of Age
- Someone Put Your Hand Out
- Slapstick
- Elizabeth, I Love You (Live from Elizabeth Taylor’s Anniversary Celebration 1997)
- For All Time
- Got the Hots
- Hot Street
- If You Don’t Love Me
- Nite Line
- On the Line
- One More Chance
- People of the World
- Serious Effect
- She Got It
- Why
- Unreleased Songs
- Motown’s Greatest Hits (1992)
- Anthology (1995 Edition) (1995)
- The Definitive Collection (2009)
- Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009)
- Billie Jean
- Smooth Criminal
- They Don’t Care About Us
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Man in the Mirror
- Thriller
- Human Nature
- Beat It
- Dirty Diana
- Heal the World
- Bad
- Black or White
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Rock with You
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- You Are Not Alone
- Remember the Time
- You Rock My World
- Will You Be There
- Scream
- Off the Wall
- The Girl Is Mine