Final Farewell to Summer, 2006

[It's amazing. I'm sitting here in an undisclosed location in the woods of Wisconsin,near a lake on a cold, crisp Autumn morning. Bluebirds are coming to the feeders outside the windows and I am sitting here with a cold cup of warmed up coffee from last night with my laptop connected to the world through a wi-fi. The day will soon be rushed so I'll take a slacker in posting this morning and give you Sunflower Woman's favorite song.

It is one of two or three songs that were composed in the time it took for me to sing it the first time. We'll take it as a farewell to the lovely summer of 2006.

From the last of May until the first week of August, it is the time of bright nights of Denmark when the evening dusk drifts over to the morning dawn with out the dark of night. One of these nights can be worth all the trouble of winter's dreay dark. But the best of all in Denmark is Sankt Hans, the 23rd. Of June]

Give me a night, a night in June.
Give me the time to sing a tune.
Give me the time to do the things
I really love to do!
In the summer time...in the summer time...

Give me a night when nights are bright.
Give me a night with that magic light.
Give me a night when nothing's wrong
and everything is right.
In the summer time...in the summer time...

Give me a night with the rain coming down,
Coming down like a wedding gown.
With a night like this coming down,
who needs a night on the town?
In the summer time...in the summer time...

Give me a night full of sweet delights,
And give me my lady by my side,
A sudden smile, and we do agree:
it's such a lovely night!
In the summer time...in the summer time...

Give me a night when you take my hand
And make me feel I am a man;
When we do the things we do the best,
we do the best we can!
In the summer time...in the summer time...