Summertime Blues
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Tara is wearing a one-piece swimsuit with a zip-up front. She is at Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point, California. No sign of the summertime blues here!
Today’s youtube is the classic rock and roll anthem Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochrane. It was a big hit in 1958. Summertime Blues is about the trials and tribulations of being a teenager in America in the 1950s.
Here is a live performance on a television program from the 1950s.
Here is the original record Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochrane.
Back up in case the previous one disappears.
Here is a cover by Blue Suede Rock. Sounds almost like the original!
Eddie Cochrane: SUMMERTIME BLUES
A I’m a-gonna raise a fuss, I’m a-gonna raise a holler
About a-workin’ all summer just to try to earn a dollar
E-E-Every time I call my baby, try to get a date
My boss says, “No dice son, you gotta work late”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
A Well my mom and pop a-told me, “Son you gotta make some money,
If you wanna use the car to go a-ridin’ next Sunday”
Well I didn’t go to work, told the boss I was sick
“Well you can’t use the car ’cause you didn’t work a lick”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
I’m gonna take two weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
I’m gonna take my problem to the United Nations
Well I called my Congressman and he said quote:
“I’d like to help you son but you’re too young to vote”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
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