Janis

Janis Joplin
Summertime

I challenged myself to find something as powerful and as chills-down-your-spine as k.d.'s Pullin' back the reins that I featured here.

So here it is.

Janis Joplin, 1969
About four minutes.
Bouncing ball below.

Summertime,
and the livin' is easy
fish are jumpin'
and the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
and your mamma's good lookin'
so hush little baby
don't you cry

One of these mornings
you're going to rise up singing
then you'll spread your wings
and you'll take to the sky

But till that morning
there's a'nothing can harm you
with daddy and mamma standing by

The song is from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.

Janis Joplin was a severely brilliant and self-destructive figure. She died of heroin and whiskey at age twenty-seven in 1970.
Link.

Shit.