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Summertime

instrumental track by Booker T. & the M.G.'s; 1966 studio recording; cover version

instrumental track by Booker T. & the M.G.'s; 1966 studio recording; cover version

Notable quotes

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925).
“The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.”
— Mary Clemmer, Presence, line 62.
“Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.”
— Charles Lamb, To V. Novello (May 9, 1826).
“Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Volume I, p. 267

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