| Song | The Swimming Song |
| Artist | Eddi Reader |
| Album | Mirmama |
| this summer I went swimming | |
| this summer I might have drowned | |
| but I held my breath, I kicked my feet | |
| moved my arms around | |
| I moved my arms around | |
| this summer I swam in the ocean | |
| and I swam in a swimming pool | |
| salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes | |
| I’m a self-destructive fool | |
| self-destructive fool | |
| this summer I did the back-stroke | |
| and you know that that’s not all | |
| I did the breast stroke, the butterfly | |
| and the old australian crawl | |
| the old australian crawl | |
| this summer I swam in a public place | |
| and a reservoir to boot | |
| at the latter I was informal | |
| at the former I wore my suit | |
| I wore my swimming suit | |
| oh, this summer I did swan dives | |
| and jack-knives for you all | |
| and once when you weren’t looking | |
| I did a cannon-ball | |
| I did a cannon-ball | |
| this summer I went swimming | |
| this summer I might have drowned | |
| but I held my breath, I kicked my feet | |
| and moved my arms around | |
| I moved my arms around |
| this summer I went swimming | |
| this summer I might have drowned | |
| but I held my breath, I kicked my feet | |
| moved my arms around | |
| I moved my arms around | |
| this summer I swam in the ocean | |
| and I swam in a swimming pool | |
| salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes | |
| I' m a selfdestructive fool | |
| selfdestructive fool | |
| this summer I did the backstroke | |
| and you know that that' s not all | |
| I did the breast stroke, the butterfly | |
| and the old australian crawl | |
| the old australian crawl | |
| this summer I swam in a public place | |
| and a reservoir to boot | |
| at the latter I was informal | |
| at the former I wore my suit | |
| I wore my swimming suit | |
| oh, this summer I did swan dives | |
| and jackknives for you all | |
| and once when you weren' t looking | |
| I did a cannonball | |
| I did a cannonball | |
| this summer I went swimming | |
| this summer I might have drowned | |
| but I held my breath, I kicked my feet | |
| and moved my arms around | |
| I moved my arms around |