Summertime A woman is a sometime thing Gone, gone, gone My man's gone now Headin' for the Promise'Land' Igot plenty o'nuttin' Bess, you is my woman now Oh, I can't sit down I ain't got no shame doin'what I like to do' It ain't necessarily so One of these mornings you goin'to rise up singin' There's boat dat's leavin'soon for New York I'm on my way
