John Hartford 2008
Nicole Singer: "This John Hartford song became a summertime favorite of the Mystic Whaler crew after we heard Sara Watkins sing it at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival festival. Hartford and Watkins both played it with fiddle, and Gillian and I had a blast adding feet this time around."
Nicole Singer: https://nicolesinger.bandcamp.com/track/long-hot-summer-days
Chorus:
For every day I work on the Illinois River
Get a half a day off with pay
On a tow boat making up barges
On a long hot summer day
Pick up some of these empties here
Just as soon as we know where they lay
Tied off of them jolly and leaving lines
On a long hot summer day
Well we put a man off in Beardstown
When we come down yesterday
And I’ll get off down at Alton
On a long hot summer day
Well I got me a gal in Pekin
She’s a good ol’ gal okay
I bet she’s sitting at a window fan
On a long hot summer day
Last night we had port for supper
Today it’ll be chicken consomme
And a fruit jar full of iced tea
On a long hot summer day