Susana Baca
Summertime lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1991
- Length
- 4:55
Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Oh, your dad is rich and your ma is good-looking
So hush little baby, don't you cry
One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
But 'til that morning, there's nothing can harm you
With daddy and mommy standing by
Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Oh, your dad is rich and your ma is good-looking
Oh, your daddy's rich and your mama's good-looking
So hush little baby, don't you cry
Summertime, summertime, summertime
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Key vocabulary
- summertime
- summer
- is
- —
- ma
- mom
- good-looking
- handsome
- you're
- you areB2
- gonna
- going to
- til
- tick
- mommy
- mom
- standing
- stand
- little
- small
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About this song
Susana Baca is Peruvian vocalist associated with Afro-Peruvian musical traditions. She is known for her interpretation of Afro-Peruvian repertoire, including the widely heard recording of “Maria Lando” featured on David Byrne’s The Soul of Black Peru.