Another song we like to celebrate the warm weather and summertime

Summer is here for sure. Yesterday, I didn’t need socks all day. Break out the margaritas and Mungo Jerry karaoke.

It’s only 4:45 AM on Saturday morning and the heat woke me up. Writing in my office, it’s already too hot to work so I open the window and it’s warm outside. Yeah for summer. I’ll have to finish writing by 8 am and get outside.

Last night downtown you could feel the summer everywhere. The Red Hat Society Ladies were prancing around in their finest. Victoria Row was bristling with people. I wanted to go home, get my guitar and busk. However, friends beckoned at Churchill Arms. Who could miss the weekly prescriptions and prognostications of the patronage pundits who people the place?

Everyone was wearing summer clothes. The gals had halter tops, sleeveless dresses and other cool garb. The men were short sleeved, a few like hisself in shorts and no socks. Brian Potter was wearing a short sleeve blue shirt, although he still had his tie on.

Most of the patrons were outside enjoying the alleyway, otherwise known as The Friggin North Pole in winter due to the wind that whistles through there.

We met an old friend and artist who has several disabilities that result in absolute numbing pain and fatigue. She looked great and sounded in a better mood than she had for months. The summer does that, revives old bodies. Makes the grown man young again.

In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry

In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry was released in May 1970 and has become one of the most recognizable summertime songs. Mungo Jerry started a fad called Mungomania based on this good time song.

The band was a folk, jug and rock band headed by Ray Dorset from Middlesex, England. It’s dangerous to parse songs that catch your ear but you can hear the beat played on a jug. The video has close ups of it which at first are like what is that? Jug band music is fun, whoozy stuff which has nothing to do with the consumption of the jug contents.

The song feels summery and easy. Put it in your rotation and feel the sun. Get out those flowered shirts, short shorts and chill.

Here’s Mungo Jerry still making people happy with the same song in 2005.