Songs that are about, or at least highlight, the END of summer

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In Flames -- Darker Times (first line: "September is here again.")

xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link

Ash "Oh Yeah", but that's about the start of the summer

Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

Yo La Tengo's "Summer," though I can't really tell if it's about the end of summer. The melancholy feel and line "'til the summer comes undone" make it seem like it is.

nickn, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Loudon Wainwright III - "Summer's Almost Over"

xhuxk, Saturday, 3 November 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link

On Some Faraway Beach, Eno?

Random Penguin House (doo dah), Saturday, 3 November 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

According to Ken Emerson (in his Stephen Foster book Doo Dah), Thomas Moore's 19th Century "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (a song I'm not sure I've ever heard) "may have been the first song ever to sell more than a million copies." (Sheet music, obviously.)

xhuxk, Sunday, 16 December 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link


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