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Sultry Summer Day
We've had over ninety days of ninety degree plus temperatures in East Tennessee this summer. It's a record. So hot, reminds me of Brownsville, Texas when I was a little girl. I grew up in East Tennessee, but every summer meant a trip home for my Dad, home being Brownsville, Texas. The images in this song are from those sultry summer days in Brownsville.
"Sultry Summer Day: Brownsville, Texas circa 1959" is on my blog page, with more images and memories of those far off days of innocence at my grandmother's house in Brownsville.
Sultry Summer Day
Times buzzes by
Like a slow moving fly
On a hot sultry day
Hours drone and melt away
On a sultry summer day
Underneath the ceiling fan
Deal the cards and play a hand
Sipping tea and crunching ice
In the sultry summer light
It's so hot it don't seem right
And for hours at a time
We all sit out on the porch
While the boys are talking sports
Girls talk about the boys
Children play with dogs and toys
Mothers sit and fan and rock
Daddies sit and smoke and talk
Say we sure could use some rain
When's this heat wave gonna break?
Repeat first verse
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