Before there was sunshine
And warm summer haze,
Before there was leisure
And long, lazy days,
Before there was sleeping
Till noon or whenever,
We woke to alarm clocks
And cold, dreary weather.
The days passed so slowly,
We somehow got through;
Summer would get here
In good time, we knew.
When it finally got here
We savored each day,
We knew that before long
It would go away.
We went on a vacation,
Second to none;
We swam in the ocean
And dried in the sun.
The days passed so quickly,
Seemed to fly by,
Summer was ending,
We could not deny.
So we packed up and went home,
With tears in our eyes,
Summer was over,
We said our goodbyes.