Summertime Blues

I'm gonna raise a fuss

I'm gonna raise a holler

A-but-a workin' all summer

Just-a trying to earn a dollar

Every time I call my baby

Try to get a date

My boss says "No dice son

You gotta work late"

Sometimes I wonder

What I'm-a gonna do

But there ain't no cure

For the summertime blues



Well my mama papa told me

"Son, you gotta make some money"

If you wanna use the car

To go ridin' next Sunday

Well, I didn't go to work

told the boss I was sick

"You can't use the car

'Cuz you didn't work a lick"

Sometimes I wonder what l'm-a gonna do

But there ain't no cure

For the summertime blues



Gonna take two weeks

Gonna have a fine vacation

l'm gonna take my problem

Through the United Nations

I called up my congressman

And he said, quote,

"I'd love to help you son,

But you're too young to vote"

Sometimes I wonder what l'm-a gonna do

But there ain't no cure

For the summertime blues