Who Sang The Door Into Summer? The Monkees
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Credits
publisher: ©Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
writers: Chip Douglas, Bill Martin
release date: 1967-11
length: 2:50
producer: Chip Douglas
lead vocals: Michael Nesmith
electric bass guitar: Chip Douglas
guitar: Chip Douglas
keyboard: Peter Tork
drums (drum set): Eddie Hoh
instrument: Harry Nilsson and William E. Martin
background vocals: Micky Dolenz
composer: Bill Martin
With his fool's gold stacked up all around him
From a killing in the market on the war
The children left King Midas there, as they found him
In his counting house where nothing counts but more
[Chorus]
And he thought he heard the echo of a penny whistle band
And the laughter from a distant caravan
And the brightly painted line of circus wagons in the sand
Fading through the door into summer
Well, it's travel onto "maybe next year" 's places
As a trade-in for a name upon the door
And he pays for every year he cannot buy back with his tears
As he finds out there's been no one keeping score
[Chorus]
From a killing in the market on the war
The children left King Midas there, as they found him
In his counting house where nothing counts but more
[Chorus]
And he thought he heard the echo of a penny whistle band
And the laughter from a distant caravan
And the brightly painted line of circus wagons in the sand
Fading through the door into summer
Well, it's travel onto "maybe next year" 's places
As a trade-in for a name upon the door
And he pays for every year he cannot buy back with his tears
As he finds out there's been no one keeping score
[Chorus]
