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Summer nights at Grandpa's -- ain't they soft and still! / Just the curtains rustlin' on the window-sill, / And the wind a-blowin', warm and wet and sweet -- / Smellin' like the meadows or the fields of wheat; / Just the bullfrogs pipin' in amongst the grass, / Where the water's shinin' like a lookin'-glass; / Just a dog a-barkin' somewheres up along, / So far off his yelpin' 's like a kind of song.
Summer nights at Grandpa's -- hear the crickets sing, / And the water bubblin' down beside the spring; / Hear the cattle chewin' fodder in the shed, / And an owl a-hootin' high up overhead; / Hear the "way-off noises," faint and awful far -- / So mixed-up a feller do'n't know what they are -- / But so sort er lazy that they seem ter keep / Sayin' over 'n' over, "Sonny, go ter sleep."