Summertime Blues

By Alan Jackson

On Who I Am

Released on June 6, 1994

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[Verse 1]

Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler

About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar

Every time I call my baby, to try to get a date

My boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work late"


[Chorus]

Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do

'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues


[Verse 2]

Well my mom 'n' 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

"Now you can't use the car cause you didn't work a lick"


[Chorus]

Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do

'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues


[Verse 3]

I'm gonna take two weeks, gonna have a vacation

I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nation

Well I called my congressman and he said quote

"I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote"


[Chorus]

Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do

'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues


[Verse 4]

Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler

About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar

Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do

'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues


[Chorus]

Yeah, sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do

'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues


[Outro]

No there ain't no cure for the summertime blues