"Green Summertime" Lyrics

Green Summertime

Far off in the bye and bye
I see a traveler in the sky
But my dreams do not take wing
for I'm captive to familiar things
In this world of mine
In the green summertime.

On a gravel country road
by the bed of the old railroad
the dust follows turning wheels
and blows away across the fields
In this world of mine
In the green summertime.

And though I know them all too well
and I have heard all they have to tell
my steps will always walk this ground
to these old friends I'm bound

On the streets of my little town
the moonlight comes streaming down
the dead wait in their graves
for the Lord there souls to save
In this world of mine
In the green summertime.

Far off in the bye and bye
I see a traveler in the sky
But my dreams do not take wing
for I'm captive to familiar things
In this world of mine
In the green summertime.

In the green summertime.