Janis Joplin covered Summertime while she was with the band Big Brother and the Holding Company. Band Images and lyrics to Summertime are below.


Janis Joplin


Big Brother and The Holding Company

Band Members:
Janis Joplin - lead vocals, guiro, maracas
Sam Andrew - guitar
Peter Albin - bass
James Gurley - guitar
David Getz - Drums

Lyrics to Gershwin's Summertime as sung by Janis Joplin

Summertime, time, time,
Child, the living's easy.
Fish are jumping out
And the cotton, Lord,
Cotton's high, Lord, so high.

Your daddy's rich
And your ma is so good-looking, baby.
She's looking good now,
Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
No, no, no, no, don't you cry.
Don't you cry!

One of these mornings
You're gonna rise, rise up singing,
You're gonna spread your wings,
Child, and take, take to the sky,
Lord, the sky.

Until that morning
Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm you now,
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Don't you cry,
Cry.