DU SPIELST 'NE TOLLE ROLLE IN DEN MEMOIREN ( You play a great role in the Memoir )
"Here ...hold this sky...careful and don't drop it!"
Memory frowns as I fumble the sky
"That there's a genuine 1963 sky..." it tells me proudly
" I really had to search high and low to find it!"
Memory added a few passing birds to get the gist of it
"These birds are from I know....1969 but nobody will notice!"
Memory similed to itself "And this... is you being seven!"
Memory set about making me a world...my world
it got most things right but some things not so right
"That's a 1943 tree I point out "I wasn't even born then!"
"Alright alright...whatever!" Memory rolls its eyes "Keep yer hair on!"
I remind Memory I haven't any hair any more
and so Memory and I go about
making the world of me aged seven
"You poets are so exacting..." Memory moans
"Now go and live in it if you will."
I loved being me being seven and so
pull back the sky and enter the world of then
as if it were the world of now I once again
that little boy Nat King Cole on the radio "Roll out those lazy crazy hazy days
of summer you'll wish that summer could always be here."
"
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" is a popular song composed by Hans Carste. It was originally written as "Du spielst 'ne tolle Rolle", with German lyrics by Hans Bradtke, and was first recorded under that title in 1962 by ***** Hagara.
In 1963, it was recorded by Nat King Cole, with English lyrics written by Charles Tobias on a theme of nostalgia. Cole's version, arranged by Ralph Carmichael and produced by Lee Gillette, reached number 6 on the US Hot 100. On the US Middle-Road Singles chart, "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" reached number 3.It was the opening track of Cole's 1963 album of the same name.
As a little boy I always thought that this song brought the summer in!