"GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER"

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For the best effect, please be sure and enjoy watching my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!) strumming my guitar and singing, "THE GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER".



"THE GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER"

Lyrics by: PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER
Music by: DIMITRI TIOMKIN

A time to be reapin',
A time to be sowin'.
The green leaves of Summer
Are callin' me home.
'Twas so good to be young then
In a season of plenty,
When the catfish were jumpin'
As high as the sky.

A time just for plantin',
A time just for ploughin'.
A time to be courtin'
A girl of your own.
'Twas so good to be young then,
To be close to the earth,
And to stand by your wife
At the moment of birth.

A time to be reapin',
A time to be sowin'.
The green leaves of Summer
Are callin' me home.
'Twas so good to be young then,
With the sweet smell of apples
And the owl in the pine tree
A-winkin' his eye.

A time just for plantin',
A time just for ploughin'.
A time just for livin',
A place for to die.
'Twas so good to be young then,
To be close to the earth,
Now, the green leaves of Summer
Are callin' me home.

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