SUMMERTIME DREAM
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot 1976


Where the road runs down by the butternut grove
To old Bill Skinner's stream
Do tell at the noonday bell
It's time for a summertime dream.

In a lunch pail town in a one horse way
You can live like a king and queen
Let's steal away in the noonday sun
It's time for a summertime dream.

Birds in all creation will be twittering in the trees
And down below's a pond I know
You can swim in it if you please.

And if you come 'round when the mill shuts down
You can see what chivalry means
Let's steal away in the noonday sun
It's time for a summertime dream.

(bridge)

On a trip on down to wonderland, in love among the flowers
Where time gets lost with no straw boss, tallying up the hours.

Where the road runs down by the butternut grove
To old Bill Skinner's stream
Do tell at the noonday bell
It's time for a summertime dream.

(bridge)

Birds in all creation will be twittering in the trees
And down below's a pond I know,
You can swim in it if you please.

And if you come 'round when the mill shuts down
You can see what chivalry means
Let's steal away in the noonday sun
It's time for a summertime dream.



(Transcribed by David Story - February 2013)