Mungo Jerry — In The Summertime
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In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine
We're not bad people, we're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody, but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy
Sing along with us, dee-dee dee-dee dee
Da doo da-da da, yeah, we're hap-pap-py
Da da da, dee da doo dee da doo da doo da
Da doo da-da da, dee da da dee da da
When the winter's here, yeah, it's party time
Bring your bottle, wear your bright clothes 'cause it will soon be summertime
And we'll sing again
We'll go driving or maybe we'll settle down
If she's rich, if she's nice
Bring your friends and we'll all go into town
In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine
We're not bad people, we're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody, but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy
Sing along with us, dee-dee dee-dee dee
Da doo da-da da, yeah, we're hap-pap-py
Da da da, dee da doo dee da doo da doo da
Da doo da-da da, dee da da dee da da
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine
We're not bad people, we're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody, but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy
Sing along with us, dee-dee dee-dee dee
Da doo da-da da, yeah, we're hap-pap-py
Da da da, dee da doo dee da doo da doo da
Da doo da-da da, dee da da dee da da
When the winter's here, yeah, it's party time
Bring your bottle, wear your bright clothes 'cause it will soon be summertime
And we'll sing again
We'll go driving or maybe we'll settle down
If she's rich, if she's nice
Bring your friends and we'll all go into town
In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine
We're not bad people, we're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody, but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy
Sing along with us, dee-dee dee-dee dee
Da doo da-da da, yeah, we're hap-pap-py
Da da da, dee da doo dee da doo da doo da
Da doo da-da da, dee da da dee da da
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Blimey
Absolutely loved this as a kid growing up in a suburb of NYC in the early '70s. In those days you had to wait until it came on the radio, but when it finally did that was a great moment.
awado wrote:
funny, i was there and disliked most of it - and the clothes. still have no affinity for the times
Did Mungo wear a helmet, when he was at the barber's? Hairstyles of the 70s are real cool stuff.
NeilBlanchard wrote:
Yeah, well the times were very different back then. Judge it in the context of then, not now and you'll be fine.
The second verse is creepy as frack, and more than a bit misogynistic.
Yeah, well the times were very different back then. Judge it in the context of then, not now and you'll be fine.
"Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats.
As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats..."
As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats..."
Now that guy (on the cover) has some chops!
grhorn wrote:
I Agree! Thanx RP!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME never in a million years did i expect this here! Huge smiles all around , thanks RP
I Agree! Thanx RP!
Did Mungo wear a helmet, when he was at the barber's? Hairstyles of the 70s are real cool stuff.
The second verse is creepy as frack, and more than a bit misogynistic.
Mita wrote:
Ah yes, and when you're ten summer never ends! Whoo-hoo!
I'm 10 years old again....
Ah yes, and when you're ten summer never ends! Whoo-hoo!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME never in a million years did i expect this here! Huge smiles all around , thanks RP
fredriley wrote:
You say it's cliche'd - no. the cliches came later. That's like saying Shakespeare is full of cliches.
This is bringing back memories of childhood. Goofy song but nice. Amazing mutton chops Dude!
This is a song of my childhood. LOL I think the lyrics are a bit dated but it has a great happy feel....
VH1 wrote:
Your right, your right, I know your right, but I liked it then and I like it now. Sorry!
"If her Daddy's rich, take her out for a meal, if her Daddy's poor, just do what you feel"??
If that is not sexist in the grossest way possible, I do not know what is!!
"Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find" yep an accident waiting to happen, that is what you can find if you drive drunk!
If that is not sexist in the grossest way possible, I do not know what is!!
"Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find" yep an accident waiting to happen, that is what you can find if you drive drunk!
Your right, your right, I know your right, but I liked it then and I like it now. Sorry!
Neanderthal
"If her Daddy's rich, take her out for a meal, if her Daddy's poor, just do what you feel"??
If that is not sexist in the grossest way possible, I do not know what is!!
"Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find" yep an accident waiting to happen, that is what you can find if you drive drunk!
If that is not sexist in the grossest way possible, I do not know what is!!
"Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find" yep an accident waiting to happen, that is what you can find if you drive drunk!
Random
Hey, we got gypped! There's supposed to be the sound of a motorcycle taking off at the end of the song but it was cut off. I guess Bill realized how much this song sucks and figured it was time to move on.
I'm 10 years old again....
Let the good times roll by ~yatou
Lina Dalin ©2008-2010 ~yatou
In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
We're no grey, people
We're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishin' or go swimmin' in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for livin' yeah, that's our philosophy
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lyrics by; Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
Model, my little sis: link
Mungo Jerry by =fluffyandblonde
Maggie Christofi ©2006-2010 =fluffyandblonde
Mungo Jerry live on stage at Northampton 20 August 2006
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" "In the Summertime" remains their most successful and most instantly recognisable song. Their name was inspired by the poem Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. According to Joseph Murrell's The Book of Golden Discs (1978), 'Mungomania' was possibly the most startling and unpredicted pop phenomenon to hit Britain since The Beatles ", in wiki
Also is appropriate here to say that in recent times, the radio station has used a criterion of excessive repetition of recent songs for 2010, 2009, which unfortunately are not, definitely, the best years of the last five decades of musical creation. Do not know if that's good. Or is it a momentary lack of inspiration / imagination.
This song has always grossed me out. Now that I have seen 'Jerry' as well, I feel doubly justified.
It's late in the year for this one, but what a corker! Politically correct lyrics abound: "...have a drink, have a drive go out and see what you can find..." "...if her daddy's rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy's poor just do what you feel..."
Look what's so wrong with mixing drinking and driving? And it's true - if you're on a date, you treat a rich girl differently to a poor girl.
Look what's so wrong with mixing drinking and driving? And it's true - if you're on a date, you treat a rich girl differently to a poor girl.
Wishful thinking on this cold NorCal day.
BEAUTIFUL SONG BY ARTURO FOR ITALY
Looks like Achilles' helmet in Troy. Or maybe an adaptation thereof suitable for the Buckingham Palace guard.
and for the 2nd time today — The Best Of — from one hit wonders...wild!
That was the strangest segue ever:
XTC—Summer's Cauldron > Mungo Jerry—In the Summertime
XTC—Summer's Cauldron > Mungo Jerry—In the Summertime
Wow - I didn't know Teenage Werewolf was a one hit wonder! Now, come on — who remembered this guys name?
h_in_bristol wrote:
Check out the mug; the man just LOOKS like a "Mungo"!
Best hair helmet ever.
The guy's name is Ray Dorset, but I suppose "Mungo Jerry" sounds better :-)
Check out the mug; the man just LOOKS like a "Mungo"!
Best hair helmet ever.
The guy's name is Ray Dorset, but I suppose "Mungo Jerry" sounds better :-)
Hey there Bill easy on the burns dude
At least he's got good teeth.
Wizzuvv_oz wrote:
And now we're all gaga at the gogo.
(all)
Flow it!
Show it!
Long as God can grow it!
Don't ask what hair can do for you, ask what you can do for your hair.
I didn't know hair could do that.
And now we're all gaga at the gogo.
(all)
Flow it!
Show it!
Long as God can grow it!
Don't ask what hair can do for you, ask what you can do for your hair.
smackiepipe wrote:
GMTA!
I was going to say he looked like a punk werewolf!
Bill's comments on the 'silly' sideburns were cute.
Heh. Mungo looks like Lon Chaney, Jr. about half-way through his wolfman transformation.
GMTA!
I was going to say he looked like a punk werewolf! Bill's comments on the 'silly' sideburns were cute. Watch out with the acid, Bro. Look what it did to that guy!
Hannio wrote:
Hannio wrote:
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
Ah now this one goes back a few years....
FrankMc wrote:
A lot of people looked like that back then; even some women. Egads!
He looks like the offspring of a couple of those old style chimp dolls.
A lot of people looked like that back then; even some women. Egads!
kind of glad Bill said it was worth the trip to check this cover out or else I wouldn't have seen it.
I didn't know hair could do that.
I didn't know hair could do that.
NASTY Third-Degree BUUUURNS!!! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Also I see why they get dental work and pretty up them one-hit-wonder boys! YIKE!
Also I see why they get dental work and pretty up them one-hit-wonder boys! YIKE!
Mungo Jerry, RPs favorite dirty hippie.
Hannio wrote:
You see the album cover? DEFINITELY Bizarro World.
Dig the tune though.
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
You see the album cover? DEFINITELY Bizarro World.
Dig the tune though.
OMG! I thought I had fallen asleep and been transported back to 1971! Reminds me of school. RP never fails to amaze....!
Hannio wrote:
I friggin LOVE this tune.
Not exactly acid music though ... I bet it was kinda jarring ...
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
I friggin LOVE this tune.
Not exactly acid music though ... I bet it was kinda jarring ...
Although this is a happy song from days past....HOW CAN YOU follow Summer's Cauldron with this?
SACRILIDGE!!!!!!!
SACRILIDGE!!!!!!!
He looks like the offspring of a couple of those old style chimp dolls.
Someone looking for me?
Oh, you said MUNGO, not MUGRO? Oops. Sorry...I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
this song played on nearly all of my teenage milestones - from driving for the first time on the highway to me driving my date to the prom with my corny ass tuxedo. no matter how cliche, cheesy, dumb, stupid, old you people think this song is - Mungo Jerry has a very dear place in the cockles of my heart.
My Grandmother thought this was the greatest when it first came out (born in 1889).
Hi Kenny Brick!
They are still going.
(click here)
Warning: don't open this link if you are offended by seriously big hair.
Aargh! It was a fun song back in the 70s when it was released, but it's dated badly, has been seriously over-played, and is pretty damn irritating these days. It's so clichéd - it's used to symbolise summertime in the same way as Slade's Merry Krissmass is used to symbolise Xmas. I couldn't hit the mute button fast enough :(
queenjill wrote:
Look at those chops!
And even with 'em, I bet he still got some. Amazing.
d-mac wrote:
Best lyric ever:
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal.
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.
bokey wrote: Good one! 
I know the song well but I never realized he was an extra from the original "Planet Of The Apes"
Good one!
I know the song well but I never realized he was an extra from the original "Planet Of The Apes"
Look at those chops!
My brothers and I (at elementary school age) 1st heard this song while riding in the back of the family station wagon. I remember how we were dancing and singing along...
Ch-ch-ch - ah! 
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I recently put it on a cd and shared it with the whole family.
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I recently put it on a cd and shared it with the whole family.
Not just another pretty face...
Yeah, I like how he shaved his face out from his hair.
smackiepipe wrote:
Heh.
Mungo looks like Lon Chaney, Jr. about half-way through his wolfman transformation.
lol
I was just looking at that cover when hearing Bill's comments about it. I can only say, oh my God.
Ch-ch-ch. 
Heh.
Mungo looks like Lon Chaney, Jr. about half-way through his wolfman transformation.
OMG, it brings back memories alright. Bad, bad, bad, memories.
Any relation to Ben Harper?
6.
Ahh yes, 6th grade, and the first cassette tape I ever bought: In the Summertime (Repetoire)
squidish wrote:
I worked one summer at a store where the manager loved to play Air Supply's Greatest Hits incessantly over the sound system. Hell on earth. 
So, I know what yer sayin'...
My dad had ONE 8track in his Toyota pickup. I think it was a KTel collection even. "On the wings of a snow-white..." I can't fin... So, I know what yer sayin'...
Best lyric ever:
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal.
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.
I suppose I'd get sick of it too if I had to hear it daily, but it brings back a flood of memories of the summer after high school, which are pleasant nostalgie for this cat.
ListeningClose wrote: So, I know what yer sayin'...
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
I worked one summer at a store where the manager loved to play Air Supply's Greatest Hits incessantly over the sound system. Hell on earth. So, I know what yer sayin'...
My favourite summertime tune when I was in my last year of high school. Ooops! Does that give me away as being 53?
ListeningClose wrote:
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
I had a similar experience. Luckily this song was not on the tape, but there are a number of good songs that I can just never ever ever listen to again for the same reason. Musically numb people should not be allowed to run stores.
I can empathize. Had the same issue in the restaurant business before satellite radio. Mungo Jerry was played a lot in the summer, but at least it was seasonal. I still can't listen to the following after hearing them each day at work:
* Beatles - Lady Madonna
* S&G's - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
ListeningClose wrote:
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
Pyro wrote:
Was Mungo Jerry a one hit wonder?
more like a 2 - 3 hit wonder!!
I love this song...it's a fun, lighthearted song...sometimes you just need that.
If this song doesn't make you giggle, then you have no silly gene. 
If they're singing de da da da de da....they have to be happy about something!
I think I heard Trekkie on the velcro.
Interestingly, this song came up on my "summertime" CD on a long car trip recently. Two of my "very musically sophisticated" (or so they believe) teen-aged occupants (age 14 and 15) found themselves laughing and getting into this song. They requested a replay, and wondered if it was available to download to their iPODs. It left me smiling and thinking that some things are timeless, like summer fun and the songs that go with.
Was Mungo Jerry a one hit wonder?
The first time I heard this song I was at a swim meet. I was asking everyone who it was. no one knew! but i so loved it! :happy tune:
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
CCinSB wrote:
who is Mungo Jerry anyway? good song though.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were characters in one of the poems from T.S. Elliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (The book Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" is based on).
CCinSB wrote:
who is Mungo Jerry anyway?
Rumpleteazer's best buddy.
who is Mungo Jerry anyway? good song though.
Great summertime memories.
My favorite drinking and driving song. 
My favorite drinking and driving song. I know that it is not quite summer yet, but a warm, hot and sunny day is made complete whenever I hear this song.
Needs more bananas
I LOVE this song! It's a perfect, crusin' around, summer song and ALWAYS brightens things up.
When I was in junior high, I actually saw Mungo Jerry on Dick Clark's American Bandstand when they premiered this song. Ain't that wild? Everything was faked and lip-synched, so the lead singer used a jug to imitate the sound of the car that occurs about 2/3 of the way through.
Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote: 
always a cheery, fun song - perfect for a Florida afternoon!
) told me the worst song was pink floyd's "careful with that axe eugune". of course, that song along with leon russell's "acid acidophilus" sound weird without the use of hallucinogens.
my friend (an old hippie
) told me the worst song was pink floyd's "careful with that axe eugune".
The first time I heard "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" I was about 10 years old and listening to my brother's records when he wasn't home. When the screaming started I FLEW out of his room and down the stairs three at a pop, convinced the record had somehow come to life. I didn't go in my brother's room for a long time after that...(;
) told me the worst song was pink floyd's "careful with that axe eugune".
The first time I heard "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" I was about 10 years old and listening to my brother's records when he wasn't home. When the screaming started I FLEW out of his room and down the stairs three at a pop, convinced the record had somehow come to life. I didn't go in my brother's room for a long time after that...(;
always a cheery, fun song - perfect for a Florida afternoon! I love this song! Always makes me smile... if only it were sunny here. No such luck however. At least the song can make me pretend like it's nice outside.
Maybe someone slipped ME some acid at some unremembered moment, but the lead singer always sounded like an earlier-day Steve Tyler(of Aerosmith) to me. Odd. 
Can\'t hear this without incredibly detailed flashbacks to Top of the Pops. BTW, as a Brit in California who has lots track of some important cultural stuff... did Top of the Pops ever die? I lost interest after Pams People.
Originally Posted by Shimmer:
Not much of a shock there. Every song is really, really strange on acid.
my friend (an old hippie
) told me the worst song was pink floyd's "careful with that axe eugune". of course, that song along with leon russell's "acid acidophilus" sound weird without the use of hallucinogens.
Not much of a shock there. Every song is really, really strange on acid.
Originally Posted by Hannio:
This song is really, really strange on acid. Don't ask me how I know. (Ah, I was so much younger then, I'm older than that now... )
)Favorite all-time summer song!
Chair dancing!!!!!!!
This song is really, really strange on acid. Don\'t ask me how I know. (Ah, I was so much younger then, I\'m older than that now... )
)One of my first 45\'s. Spent hours as a kid listening to this until it was totally wore out. Thanks RP!
Hate the lyrics, but what a classic! That beat, the wavery vocals and the catchy hook are so great. I think this song qualifies for the only jug band hit ever, but it gets my vote for laid back, hot weather groovin\'.
Originally Posted by billowhead:
Man that hurt going from the Eels to this.
Yeah, that was kinda abrupt. Cute song, though! :D
Man that hurt going from the Eels to this.
shades of 1970 am radio!!! hey, i\'ve even got this on a 45. holy cow!?!?!! please don\'t hold that against me.
Now I like it. Damnit.