"In the Good Old Summertime" is a song featured in the 1941 Mickey Mouse short film The Nifty Nineties with music composed by George Evans and lyrics written by Ren Shields. Adapted from their Tin Pan Alley song of the same name, the song was performed by the vocal quartet The Sportsmen and originally written in 1902.
Donald Duck sings the song in the short, Donald's Garden.
Instrumental versions of the song were featured in two other Mickey Mouse shorts: "The Picnic" and "Mickey's Amateurs".
It was also performed as a duet between Floyd Pepper and Pearl Bailey in episode 305 of The Muppet Show when the former visits the latter in her dressing room.
Lyrics[]
Verse
There's a time in each year that we always hold dear,
Good old summer time;
With the birds and the treeses and sweet scented breezes,
Good old summer time;
When your day's work is over then you are in clover,
And life is one beautiful rhyme.
No trouble annoying, each one is enjoying,
The good old summer time.
Chorus
In the good old summer time,
In the good old summer time,
Strolling thro' the shady lanes,
With your baby mine;
You hold her hand and she holds yours,
And that's a very good sign,
That she's your tootsey wootsey
In the good old summer time.
Verse 2
To swim in the pool, you'd play "hooky" from school,
Good old summer time;
You'd play "ring-a-rosie" with Jim, Kate and Josie,
Good old summer time;
Those days full of pleasure we now fondly treasure,
When we never thought it a crime,
To go stealing cherries, with face brown as berries,
Good old summer time.
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