Summer of my Dreams
Posted in Country Music on Jun 19th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a song written by David Mallett, and recorded severally. There are popular versions by Dolores Keane, Eleanor Shanley and Kathey Mattea.
It’s a memory first of childhood, an almost too perfect memory of summer, of a field of clover, clouds, wind blowing, trees dancing. Then a shift to adulthood as he comes back, as from a world from which he is now retreating, back to the where he was a child, loved and where, improbably perhaps, she, his own true love still waits for him.
There’s a lovely line ‘By the deep pool where the fish wait for the old fool with the wrong bait’.
I always think it’s describing me!
This is the best version, by Kathy Mattea.
