Lyrics to
Summertime Dream

This version of Summertime Dream was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1976.

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Where the road runs down by the butternut grove
To old Bill Skinner’s stream
Do tell at the noonday bell
It’s time for a summertime dream
In a lunch pail town in a one horse way
You can live like a king and queen
Let’s steal away in the noonday sun
It’s time for a summertime dream

Birds in all creation will be twitterin’ in the trees
And down below’s a pond I know
You can swim in it if you please
And if you come ’round when the mill shuts down
You can see what chivalry means
Let’s steal away in the noonday sun
It’s time for a summertime dream

On a trip on down to wonderland
In love among the flowers
Where time gets lost with no straw boss
Tallyin’ up the hours
Where the road runs down by the butternut grove
To old Bill Skinner’s stream
Do tell at the noonday bell
It’s time for a summertime dream

Birds in all creation will be twitterin’ in the trees
And down below’s a pond I know
You can swim in it if you please
So if you come ’round when the mill shuts down
You can see what chivalry means
Let’s steal away in the noonday sun
It’s time for a summertime dream

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About Lyrics and Summertime Dream by Gordon Lightfoot

The lyrics to Summertime Dream are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Summertime Dream are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Gordon Lightfoot and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Summertime Dream back when it was created.

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