Herbie Hancock

Released: October 20, 1998

Featuring: Joni Mitchell

Songwriter: George Gershwin DuBose Heyward

Producer: Robert Sadin

[Instrumental]

[Verse 1: Joni Mitchell]
Summertime, and the living is easy
Fish are jumping out
And the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich and your mama's so good looking
So, hush little baby, don't you cry

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2: Joni Mitchell]
One of these mornings
You're gonna rise rise up singing
Spread your wings and take to the sky
But until that morning
Ain't no one's gonna harm you
Not with your daddy and mommy standing by

[Instrumental]

[Verse 3: Joni Mitchell]
Summertime, and the living is easy
Fish are jumping
And the cotton is high
Your mama's rich and your daddy's so good looking
So, hush little baby, don't you cry

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4: Joni Mitchell]
One of these mornings
You're gonna rise rise up singing
Spread your pretty little wings and take to the sky
Oh, but 'til that morning
Ain't no one's gonna harm you
Not with your daddy and mammy standing by

[Outro: Joni Mitchell]
Summertime

Herbert Jeffrey “Herbie” Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor from Chicago, Illinois.

In 1960 he began working with Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins. He recorded his first solo album “Takin' Off” for Blue Note Records in 1962. “Watermelon Man”. Thanks to the album he caught the attention of Miles Davis, who asks, in May 1963, Hancock to join his Second Great Quintet.

In the sixties he records two important albums in jazz “Empyrean Isles” (1964) and “Maiden Voyage” (1965), both for Blue Note. During this period, Hancock also composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blowup (1966), the first of many film soundtracks he recorded in his career.

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