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Bed In Summer Blues

by Standard Time

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"Bed In Summer" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1913. Debbie Stempien & Greg Turner set these words with supplemental lyrics to music as a cheeky blues for two-part treble choir, in which children lament their unfair summer bedtimes.

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Bed In Summer Blues

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I’m so blue, I got them Bed In Summer Blues.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
I’m so blue, I got them Bed In Summer Blues.

No fireflies, no starlit skies,
No marshmallows by the fireside,
I’m s’posta settle down and quit my yappin’,
But when I close my eyes, well, nothin’ happens!

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
I’m so blue, I got them Bed In Summer Blues.

No fireflies, no starlit skies,
No marshmallows by the fireside,
I’m s’posta settle down and quit my yappin’,
But when I close my eyes, well, nothin’ happens!

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
I’m so blue, I got them Bed In Summer Blues.

Goodnight!

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released June 2, 2023
Performed by the Quest Elementary Chorus (Hilton, NY), directed by Mrs. Shana Kohler and accompanied by Greg Turner. Students in this ensemble are in grades 3-6.

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Standard Time Brockport, New York

Greg Turner: Performing professional musician since 1978; public school music teacher for 32 years; B.M. and M.M. in music ed. and piano from Eastman School of Music

Debbie Stempien: Private instructor since 1994; Yamaha Young Performing Artist in 1996; published composer; M.A. in Music Theory from Univ. of Michigan; B.A. from Susquehanna Univ. ... more

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