Summertime Chords by Joanne Shaw Taylor

Summertime chords by Joanne Shaw Taylor

Guitar chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Em

Time Signature: 12/8

🎸 Intro:

| Em B7 |
| Em  D | Am  B7 | x4




🎸 Verse 1:
      Em Em/D# Em/D  A7         C/D
Summertime
and the livin' is
Em Em/D# Em/D  A7  D7
easy
         Am      Am/G#  Am/G         Am
Fish are jumpin'             and the cotton is
B7 C7  B7 Am G      F#dim7
high           Your Daddy's
Em Em/D# Em/D  A7          C/D
rich
and your Momma's  good
Em Em/D# Em/D  A7  D7
lookin'

🎸

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🎸 Chorus:
   G           Em7             Am  B7
So hush little baby, don't you cry
          Em Em/D# Em/D           Am  B7
don't you cry
don't you cry


Link:
| Em D | Am B7 |
| Em D | Am B7 |


🎸 Verse 2:
             Em Em/D# Em/D  A7               C/D
One of these mornings
you're gonna rise up
Em     Em/D# Em/D  A7  D7
singing
                        Am  Am/G#  Am/G            Am
Then you'll spread your wings
and you'll take to the
B7  C7        B7 Am G     F#dim7
sky    to the sky     But till that
Em      Em/D# Em/D  A7           C/D
morning
there's a nothin'  can
Em       Em/D# Em/D  A7   D7
harm you


🎸 Chorus:
     G         Em7             Am  B7
With Daddy and Momma, standing by
         Em Em/D# Em/D          Am  B7
standing by
standing by


Link:
| Em D | Am B7 |
| Em D | Am B7 |


🎸 Instrumental:
| Am   Am/G# | Am/G   Am       |
| B7   C7    | B7 Am  G F#dim7 |
| Em D | Am B7 |
| Em D | Am B7 |


Link:
| E | Em  Am B7 |


🎸 Verse 3:
      Em Em/D# Em/D  A7         C/D
Summertime
and the livin' is
Em Em/D# Em/D  A7  D7
easy
         Am      Am/G#  Am/G         Am
Fish are jumpin'             and the cotton is
B7 C7  B7 Am G      F#dim7
high           Your Daddy's
Em Em/D# Em/D  A7          C/D
rich
and your Momma's  good
Em Em/D# Em/D  A7  D7
lookin'


🎸 Chorus:
   G           Em7             Am  B7
So hush little baby, don't you cry
          Em Em/D# Em/D           Am  B7
don't you cry
don't you cry


🎸 Outro:
| Em D | Am B7 |
| Em D | Am B7 | E |

Published: March 20, 2022

Last updated: September 10, 2025

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