It’s time once again for Song Lyric Sunday! This week, our host Jim Adams has asked us to choose a song that relates to weather conditions such as cyclones, floods, hurricanes, rainfall, storms, tornadoes, typhoons, or winds. I chose A Little More Summertime, by Jason Aldean.
The reason I chose this particular song is that it came out just about the same time I moved from Ellington, CT back here to Birmingham, AL. It broke my heart to leave but I could no longer afford to live there. My job only paid $13.00 an hour. I tried to stay, though. If only I had a little more time, money, etc… I ended up filing for bankruptcy, launched a Go Fund Me page on Facebook (which bought me another month and some groceries), and nearly ended up homeless with four cats to worry about.
Plus, my then-estranged husband was seriously ill with prostate cancer.
Okay. I know when I’m licked.
The Story
A Little More Summertime was released in 2016 on Jason Aldean’s “They Don’t Know” album.
- Written by Jerry Flowers, Tony Martin and Wendell Mobley, this song finds Aldean mourning a summer love lost: “‘A Little More Summertime’ really hit me the first time I heard it,” Aldean said. “It’s always been about the vibe of a song for me. So when that chorus hits and the song takes off, I knew it had to be on this album.”
- This was one of the first songs Aldean and his producer Michael Knox found for They Don’t Know. “There was just something really cool melodically about it; it was a little different than some of the things we’ve had in the past,” the singer told reporters. “The thing that really grabbed me was the U2 guitar stuff going on right before the chorus. You know, that was kinda the vibe I gave [the band] when we went in to cut the song; I was like, ‘If there’s a vibe we’re going after, it’s U2. Just think about that when you’re playing it.’ It was just really cool.”
- Wendell Mobley provided the vocals on the demo, which set a high standard for Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany (who is in the video), helped persuade her husband to cut the song. “I was actually headed to my house in Florida, in my Jeep; I’m driving through this little beach town, and I’m listening to this song,” the singer recalled. “I had a CD of songs I was listening to for the new album, and I’m driving through this little beach town as the song comes on, and it was almost like something out of a movie. My wife was sitting next to me, and she fell in love with the song. That was pretty much it. I had to cut it.”
The Lyrics
They boarded up this water town
Ain’t nobody hanging around
Another grey September day
Was I crazy to think she’d stay?
If that sun had just
Hung up in that sky
Just a little
Just a little bit longer
If those blue water waves
Could’ve stayed at our feet
Instead of going out with the tide
If that wind was a friend
It’d still be blowing in
Like a warm southern whisper on her
She might have stayed forever
And never ever left these arms
If only I
Had a little more summertime
I brace myself against the cold
And let her memory take hold
Stirring that old fire up
As if I don’t miss her enough.
If that sun had just
Hung up in that sky
Just a little
Just a little bit longer
If those blue water waves
Could’ve stayed at her feet
Instead of going out with the tide
If that wind was a friend
It’d still be blowing in
Like a warm southern whisper on her
She might have stayed forever
And never ever left these arms
If only I
Had a little more summertime
Just a little more summertime
If that sun would have just
Hung up in that sky
Just a little
Just a little bit longer
She might have stayed forever
And never ever left these arms
If only I
Had a little more summertime
Songwriters: Wendell Mobley, Tony Martin, Jerry Allen Flowers. For non-commercial use only.
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