Chords for Burl Ives; George Gobel - In The Summertime

_ _ Hold it a minute, George, yes? _ _
_ _ _ _ _ How nice.
Did you like it, honey?
I did, it's great.
You like it, too?
But I was just going to leave because I figured, you know, that my time was about up.
I kind of rambled on and I just thought I'd sort of hightail it now.
_ Hightail it?
You mean a country boy like you, Burl, [Gb] ain't never heard of hightailing it?
Well, I've heard the expression, George, but I don't think I've really ever [N] seen anybody do it.
Well, would you like to, would you like to do it?
I'd like to give you a demonstration.
It's really, there's nothing [Gm] to it, see.
First of all, [C] the first thing, you've got to get set, [N] sort of like this.
That's what you do, you know.
That part of it worries me.
You bring your stuff with you?
Yes, I do.
Now then, _ when you're all set.
Would you like to have a little experience?
No, no, I don't think I'll be able to. _
_ I'll help you hightail it.
When _ _ you're all set, [F] you think you're so smart, don't you?
No.
_ _ You've got to get all set before you hightail it.
And then all you do, you know, you just haul off [C] and just [N] hightail it, just like that.
That's all you do. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, _ come on, it wasn't that good.
But there's nothing to it, actually.
Would you like to try it?
Well, I might try it.
You've got to help me, though.
Now, this foot [Gb] goes like this, and this is the one here.
Now you've just got to hightail it, right?
That's right, just go ahead, just hightail it. _ _
Go ahead.
Oh, I can't do this.
Yeah, you can't. _ _
Okay, I'll try it. _ _ _
_ There you go. _ _ _ _
_ _ How's that?
_ What do you think?
Burl, you're my friend and all that, but I think maybe [F] you'd just better lowtail it.
_ _ [Eb] Well, I think gravity is working against me.
You see, I've got a higher launching pad than [D] you have.
I noticed [E] that, yeah.
_ _ _ [Cm] But I've got a surprise for you, George.
I want you to come on down here, I've got to show you something.
Okay.
_ _ [G] _ Oh, Burl.
You know what, you shouldn't have done it.
[N] Real honest-to-goodness apple box.
Yeah, I thought that you might enjoy a little apple box setting.
Burl, I'm going to tell you, they can have their stools and their rocky chairs,
but when it comes to real good setting, there ain't no setting like apple box setting.
Yeah, I'm an old apple box setter myself from way back.
Yeah, well, that's probably why you can't hightail it.
Burl.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] You know, it's a funny thing [Fm] when it comes to setting, you know, there just [G] ain't no box like an apple box.
True.
[C] Did you ever, did you [F] ever, did you ever try a peach box, Burl?
Yes, [Gb] a peach box I tried just once, but I didn't like it, it was too fuzzy.
[D] Yeah.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It tickled. Yeah, yeah.
But this is really living here, you know.
You know, Burl, really, we have turned our backs on some of the real things in life.
Yeah.
You know, like squatting and whittling and hayride lollygagging.
Yeah, stovepipe spitting.
Yeah.
_ _ That's as good as hot stove spitting.
[E] Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, uh_
It's a [N] little higher there.
You know what, Burl, _ sitting here like this reminds me of my Uncle Byron.
_ You know what Uncle Byron used to do?
Uncle Byron_
What did Uncle Byron used to do?
He used to come to our house and he'd sit around all day long on an apple box.
He did.
Never got up from that apple box, and along toward evening there, when he would leave,
I can still see Uncle Byron walking down the path with the word wine sap printed backwards across the seat of his bridge. _ _ _ _ _
And you know, George, when a couple of fellas get together on a couple of apple boxes,
there ain't nothing better than some out loud two people singing.
Yeah, well, Burl, I'm telling you, you've got my [F] tonsils a twitching right now.
Let's just give it a do, okay?
[Eb] _ _ _ _ In the summertime when all the trees are green,
I'm a little bit [Bb] afraid that I'll be there,
With all of [Eb] my love.
_ Summertime, that's what you say when I want you,
Then you laugh at me [F] and make me cry,
Cause you don't [Eb] want my love.
[Ab] You don't seem to care a thing about me,
Brother, live without me, [Eb] none do have my arms around you,
And the nights are cold and you're snow all [Bbm] alone.
[Bb] In the summertime when all the trees are green,
I'm afraid that I'll be there,
[Eb] You don't want my love.
_ I'll go back to that bridge part.
Keep going.
_ I'll sing that part in the middle.
I don't have my strap right.
And then when we get to the other part,
You go back to the summertime.
_ Cause I know you, Burl, I know,
When you get to a part you know you turn to burly. _
_ _ _ _ _ No, that's not the part we want.
_ _ _ _ You don't [Ab] seem to care a thing about me,
You'd rather live without me, [Eb] none do have my arms around you,
And the nights are cold and you're snow [Bb] all alone.
[Eb] In the summertime when all the leaves are green,
And the red [Bb] bricks seem to be blue,
Cause you [Eb] don't want my love.
Cause you don't want my love. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _