# What is a September song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992 "2009-08-28T02:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/21 "2009-08-28T22:58:54Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day…although that would technically be an October song. Isn’t it sung as if September isn’t over yet? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/22 "2009-08-29T01:39:55Z")
Here some good September songs to me. Lies - Stan Rogers Birches - Bill Morrissey 75 Septembers - Cheryl Wheeler River - Bill Staines To me Bill Staines songs are almost all good September songs. September Songs: They are the harvest songs you listen to on a sunny fall day of Indian summer. The ground is dry and cool enough to sit on while you watch birds feeding on cosmos seeds, or dusting on a dry patch of ground. You get to open those surprises that have grown all summer while you waited and labored. The bright orange pumpkins peek through the leaves now. The insect’s drone and thrum the air. The apples perfume the air as they sweeten enticing you to eat one. The birds will soon succumb to the cry of follow, follow, that blows on the wind. It’s the songs that make you want to follow, and to see new sights and places. You desire to follow the birds and the winds to warmer lands. Not now the sun is warm and you are tired. The songs carry you through daydreams and contemplations. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/23 "2009-08-29T01:52:12Z")
For me, it’s always been Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer”: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmoWIhMOjmg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmoWIhMOjmg) ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/24 "2009-08-29T02:01:43Z")
The late great Sarah Vaughan’s [September Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRhhNPBPGyU). ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/25 "2009-08-29T02:10:58Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > For me? “Happy Birthday to You.” Me, too! Sept. 16. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/26 "2009-08-29T02:29:35Z")
Sinatra has an album devoted to this theme, “September of My Years,” with the following songs: “The September of My Years” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) “How Old Am I?” (Gordon Jenkins) “Don’t Wait Too Long” (Sunny Skylar) “It Gets Lonely Early” (Van Heusen, Cahn) “This Is All I Ask” (Gordon Jenkins) “Last Night When We Were Young” (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) “The Man in the Looking Glass” (Bart Howard) “It Was a Very Good Year” (Ervin Drake) “When the Wind Was Green” (Henry Stinson) “Hello, Young Lovers” (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) “I See It Now” (Alexander Wilder, William Engvick) “Once Upon a Time” (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) “September Song” (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) The lovely title song can be heard [here](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3184263/the_september_of_my_years/). > [@](#): > > As I man, who has never pauses at wishing wells > Now Im watching childrens carousels > And their laughters music to my ears > > And I find, that Im smiling gently as I near > September, the warm september of my years > > - the golden warm september of my years There’s a sort of sweet melancholy in many of these songs. Reflective but not exactly sad. As I am a big [Jonathon Coulton](http://www.jonathancoulton.com/) evangalist, I have to add his [Summer’s Over](http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Summer's%20Over) to the list, too: > [@Jonathan Coulton](#): > > Summer’s over > You’re going back to school > I’m staying here > Where else would I go? > > Watch the leaves turn > Close up the swimming pool > Winter comes in > Sooner than you know > > Nights get cold and the flowers let go > Bide their time under the snow > As they go down they say > Goodbye > Goodbye > > Summer’s over > Because it has to be > Just like before > Around and around > > It’s a circle > Bringing you back to me > Stay where I am > I’m lost and found > > When you go you come back again > Close the door, the cold’s coming in > As I go down I say > Goodbye > Goodbye (Coulton releases his music under a Creative Commons license; sharing lyrics in this context is a-ok.) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992/27 "2009-08-29T05:20:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > For me, it’s always been Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer”: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmoWIhMOjmg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmoWIhMOjmg) [see note below] That’s one of the songs I first thought of. After I thought about it, “April Come She Will” is a very apt September song, despite its title. Melancholy is a common element for these “Spetember songs,” huh? > [@freckafree](#): > > Me, too! Sept. 16. How about you? the 8th, so I got first-day-of-school as a present every year. Yay! ☹ [note: this isn’t the YouTube video you meant to link to for this thread, is it? I’m guessing that’s meant for [thread=529626]this thread.[/thread]] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-september-song/507992.md?page=1)