The trees on the mountains
are cold and bare.
The summer jes' vanished,
an' left them there
Like a false-hearted lover,
jes' like my own
Who made me love him,
then left me alone.
The coals on the hearth
have turned gray and sere.
The blue flame jes' vanished
an' left them there,
Like a false-hearted lover,
jes' like my own
Who made me love him,
then left me alone.
Come back, o summer,
come back, blue flame.
My heart wants warmin',
my baby a name.
Come back, o lover,
if jes' fer a day.
Turn bleak December
once more into May.
The road up ahead lies lonely an' far.
There's darkness around me
an' not even a star
To show me the way,
or lighten my heart.
Come back, my lover,
I fain would start.
The pore baby fox lies all cold in his lair.
His mama jes' vanished
an' left him there,
Like a false-hearted lover,
jes' like my own,
Who made me love him,
then left me alone.
Come back, o summer,
come back, blue flame!
My heart wants warmin',
my baby a name.
Come back, o lover,
if jes' fer a day.
Turn bleak December
once more into May.
Come back! Come back! Come back!
Soprano: Pamela Andrews
Pianist: Alan Hicks
Filmed and recorded in Llewellyn Hall, Canberra, by the Australian National University, November 2010, on behalf of Pamela Andrews.
Edited for YouTube by JRR4FILM Productions.
© JRR4FILM Productions 2011
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