Celebrated Summer

Celebrated Summer

Love and hate was in the air
Like pollen from a flower
Somewhere in April time
They add another hour
I guess I better think up a way to spend my time
Just when I’m ready to sit inside, it’s summertime
Should I go swimming or get a friend to hang around
It’s back to summer, it’s back to basics, hang around
Getting drunk out on the beach
Or playing in a band
And getting out of school
Meant getting out of hand

[Chorus]
Was this your celebrated summer?
Was that your celebrated summer?
Was this your celebrated summer?

Then the sun disintegrates
Between a wall of clouds
I summer where I winter at
No one is allowed there
Do you remember when
The first snowfall fell?
When summer barely had
A snowball’s chance in hell?

[Chorus]
Was this your celebrated summer?
Was this your celebrated summer?
Was this your celebrated summer?
Summertime
Summertime
Summertime
Summertime

Do you remember when
The first snowfall fell?
Was that your celebrated summer?

“Celebrated Summer” (Bob Mould, lead vocals and guitar, Grant Hart, drums; Greg Norton, bass)
is the first single released from the 1984 Husker Du‘s album New Day Rising