Lazy Summer Night

Words & Music by Harold Spina
Recorded by The Four Preps, 1958 (#21)


C           Cdim Fdim     C   B7   C
It's such a lazy summer night,

              Bm7-5   E7       A7    A7sus4    A7
There's not a moving thing in sight

A7sus4  Am7  Am Dm7   G7     Dm7  G7
It's    all  so qui - et, no ri - ot,

      C           G7              Dm       Dm7      G7
Why, even in the thicket, Mister Cricket's slowin' down.

C           Cdim Fdim     C    B7   C
It's such a lazy summer night

           Bm7-5     E7       A7   A7sus4    A7
That In-spi-ra-tion Point is right

A7sus4   Am7  Am  Dm7    G7      Dm7  G7
For     fan - cy dream - in' and seem - in'

    C      Am     Dm7   G7       C
To just relax and run away from town.


Bridge:
            C9                 C7
Hey take a look at all those other cars;

                                         F      Fdim(III)  F
They're parked here just like ours, to count the  stars  above;

               Am7   D7      Am7                  D7
It seems we're not alone. I guess I should have known,

   G7        Dm7        G7                Dm7
Romance runs high the last two weeks in July.


C           Cdim Fdim     C    B7   C
It's such a lazy summer night,

            Bm7-5 E7         A7       A7sus4    A7
Tonight the fire flies will light

A7sus4 Am7 Am  Dm7   G7       Dm7         G7     C
The    way for lov - ers, for lovers like us to love.

Coda:

C           Cdim Fdim     C              
It's such a lazy summer night.


I missed out on this song for over 40 years -- I literally had never heard it until the local oldies station aired it as part of a "guest DJ of the day" insert into the nationally syndicated Eddie Hubbard radio show. Oddly, that's not the first time Hubbard's guest DJ introduced me to a song I'd never heard, and instantly fell in love with -- the other is "A Dreamer's Holiday," also found on this site.


 
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