Carole King - Sweet Seasons Lyrics

Had the pleasure of seeing this lady in concert a few years ago with James Taylor. So much energy, she was just phenomenal, running around on stage, getting everyone up and dancing. Just amazing.

I actually prefer the first three songs on the album Music to Tapestry. And this song here would be the third one of the three.

Lyrics:

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
And sometimes the blues just get a hold of you
Oh, just when you though you had made it
All around the block people will talk
I wannna give it all that I've got
I just don't want, I don't wanna waste it

Talkin' 'bout sweet seasons on my mind
Sure does appeal to me
You know you we can get there easily
Just like a sailboat sailin' on the sea

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
And most times you choose between the two
Oh, wondering, wondering if you have made it
But I'll have some kids and make my plans
And I'll watch the seasons running away
And I'll build me a life in the open, a life in the country

I'm talkin' 'bout sweet seasons on my mind
Sure does appeal to me
You know you can get there easily
Just like a sailboat sailin' on the sea
Talkin' 'bout sweet seasons
Talkin' 'bout sweet, sweet, sweet seasons
Talkin' 'bout sweet seasons
Talkin' 'bout sweet seasons

First formal paid job in summer of 1972 as a dishwasher/pot scrubber at The Chalet restaurant up in Lake Arrowhead, CA...a 16-year-old kid thinking that he was gong to be young forever.....hahaha!!!

I can't here this song enough.my favorite king son

77 WABC NYC Cousin Brucie, Chuck Leonard, Harry Harrison...listened on our transistor radios to all these great, great tunes... memories of our lifetimes!

I would have held that piano chord one more time..but great song

If you focus you can still taste the air of the 70's, people being into one another and loving real things. But rather than pine away, bring it back. Reach out to people.

I find it very disturbing that the ad for concealed carry goes with the Carol King video . she's no gun buff. Who protects the family from the violent head of household?

There are way too many guns. How does a 19 yr old buy a gun and kill an innocent Jew in Shul? Or Black People at Church? Or Muslims in a Mosque or Catholics in Sri Lanka? Or how about in movie theatres or schools or homes? I have had enough killings and shootings.

We need to turn out society of guns and bombs. We have too many stressed out folks with access to guns. A recipe for disaster. How many more people have to die before we have sensible gun laws?

Correction. We need to rid our society of guns and bombs

JR. Fender, are you related to Harold,Carol, Betty orPhilip Fender?

The pride of Brooklyn. Great songwriter.

always spent hours and hours listening to this beautiful lady reminds me of summer days on the beach love this !

Linda Johnson. ? beautiful lady? She is an ugly bitch

Ahhhhh back in the 8-track days. Gosh I sure do miss the 20th Century, along with my mom...as of January 24th...😢

Carol King had that Joni Mitchell style in her singing.

Tony
58-year-old Air Force VET 🇺🇸

Timeless by one of the greats!!! Beautiful music of any era!!! Love carol king......

Happy Birthday today(February 9) to Carole King. Cheers!

My 'Like' rescued this clip from displaying the number 666.

How do you survive life when you shit yourself at your own shadow?

Know what the biggest problem is with this song? It's over too soon.

sounds like Chicago in background

Another Carole King great

This has always been my favorite Carole King song. Simply magical.

It is my favorite. Just a cheerful tune.

Was 14, just got on the bus from losing the eight grade state basketball tourney, this came on my walkman!

Thanks this song is so good

FANTASTIC song by an excellent artist! Kicks ass! 🖒

Love Love Carole and this song of my college years!! Now as an old man still love this talented woman!!

great job Jr Fender &youtube

Carole King .. some of the best songwriting of the 20th Century

Sang it Carole talk about the sweet seasons

Reminds me of days of my youth, especially AM radio

Yea, I would listen to my radio in my room with my little desk top cassette recorder to tape my fave songs.

Oh my gosh... so did I!!! My grandmother's portable AM/FM radio and my portable Panasonic cassette tape recorder and a bunch of Kmart brand cassette tapes and i had hours of fun.

Thank you Carole! Just sing this every "come spring" time in my head - looking forward to baseball. This song is life. Waiting to pull the trigger on Facebook after today's vote - and you know what - sometimes the "blues". Spring is always on my mind and the fact no matter what - sweet feeling!

Lovely.

Great song.

Reminds me of my sisters vacuuming the living room on Saturday mornings lol... I love this song! :)

I bought the Tapestry C.D. assuming this song and it was on it. My favorite Carol King song along with "It's too late" and the Sherelles version of "Will you love me tomorrow". She was an excellent songwriter and producer at the peak of her career as well all know.

Typo error. I assume it was on the C.D. and obviously it wasn't.

This song is on her album "Music". My favorite too.

I'm with you, brother!

Love this song.

A straight-up classic, thanks for taking me back to my high-school days.

This and Natural Woman are my CK favourites

this and Jazzman are mine

My favorite Carole King song 💖💖

Thanks maw

Mine is 'I Saw the Light', but Todd Rundgren sings it. Damn, what a duet that would make for them!

Fabulous!  Peace friend.

entered Cashbox Jan 22, 1972

Yeah, Christine McVie did some stuff resembling this with the Mac.

Yeah, I think it's "Say You Love Me" that starts out real similar to this song.

I never noticed it until I saw your post. You are right on. Does sound like later Fleetwood Mac with Christine.

+George Estremera Yes! The piano intro!

+George Estremera The piano intro is very similiar.

This song is good to hear!!! Thanks "Jr Fender!"

And of course THANKS CAROLE KING!!! YOU ARE BLESSED TO BE A MASTERPIECE OF TALENTED ARTISTRY AND YOUR MUSIC HAS BEEN SUCH A BLESSING TO ENJOY FOR SO LONG!!! I have loved so many of your songs pretty much all my life!!! Just read that you and James Taylor performed a wonderful set together at Madison Square Garden in 2010. Two super talented artists; it's so great that you are friends!!!

"Sweet Seasons" reminds me of sweet summertime in Columbus Indiana and particularly of a friendship I had with Steve Lindeman, an all-around wonderful person, and a very talented musician!!! I picture driving down there, like maybe on the way, and once I'm down there, seeing the openness of the landscape as in fields, maybe farmland; it's a positive memory of feeling "up" being in a pleasant and different place, spending time with Steve is one of the very special memories of mine there at that time. The profile pic I'm using today 111613 reminds me of Steve Lindeman, altho the profile pic is--on the style side--a bit "wild." :)

Now that I've said this, I must say I looked him up recently to apologize for an old "foible" (shall we say?) -- and I found he had released his first CD this year called "Steve Lindeman with BYU Synthesis" -- a CD full of talent that Steve Lindeman composed himself, and BYU Synthesis backed him on the "album."

BYU Synthesis won best collegiate jazz band this year, after submitting three (3) OF THE SONGS STEVE LINDEMAN WROTE!!! So this has been an incredible year for Steve, and for BYU Synthesis. I'm very happy for Steve and the jazz ensemble!!! Steve Lindeman teaches music at Brigham Young University where he commuted from Utah to NYC to take a coveted jazz workshop. He applied his new musical knowledge and skills, with his wonderful talents as an artist and his creative artistry as a composer, and VOILA!!! This is the debut year for Composer, Musician, Educator and Artist Steve Lindeman. So very proud of you Steve!!! :)

But back to Columbus, IN -- this happened to be where Steve grew up, a wonderful little town that has grown a lot, known for its architecture. It fascinated me that everything in that town seemed new; like there's no run-down area. Columbus, IN happened to be where my maternal aunt settled and came to own a beauty shop. I believe Steve's Mom was one of her clients.

That's likely how it is that my aunt -- also a highly talented person in the hair business (people know her as "Ruthie" but her birth name is "MunJa") -- came to know Steve Lindeman; and my Aunt MunJa introduced me to him. He was so talented on piano and guitar(!), and he taught me a few lovely chords on the guitar -- that I still love to this day (and which I was able to use when a friend I'd grown up with asked me to play in her wedding :)).  On the keyboards he was such a whiz. We were both very young and I just have such a lovely picture of that time in life and such fond memories of our time together in Columbus and at my Aunt MunJa's home. The fireflies are so noticeable down there and they listen to a lot of country. Back then I wasn't as much of a country fan as now.

"SWEET SEASONS" brings that all back to me in Columbus, but Steve Lindeman is in there really strong in relation to that song, for some reason. The chords he taught me were from Youngblood's version of "Misty Roses," which I only learned recently is a song that has been covered many a time. 

I can smell the pleasant fragrance in my Aunt MunJa's home. It was like a magical place for me at that time in my life . . . will never be another like it. I loved my Aunt MunJa, her home, the food, the town, that weather, the openness regarding the landscape of the area, the fireflies, the dogwood trees everywhere -- everywhere those beautiful pink blossomed trees -- the evenings. Took for granted my cousins tho -- both younger than me.

My Aunt had the soundtrack album to "Dr. Zhivago," and I learned how to play a song or two from it on her piano. She loved that movie, and when I saw it -- who cannot LOVE that movie??? My Aunt MunJa taught me how to make "mandu," a delicious dish and she always had a knack for cutting my hair and my Mom's in some way we fell in love with -- a cut just right for our individual selves, with style and flare. She is SO talented and always has been so popular and well loved.

I'll NEVER find another cologne that I love as much as Elizabeth Arden's "Memoire Cherie," one my Aunt wore and which I adored and bought and bought and bought until it was discontinued.  I used to NOT tell people (sometimes) what I wore. But people always asked me because they loved it so much.

I wanted to be unique. I have to wonder if I had told people what it was when they asked, would it have been discontinued???  So the moral here is GIVE, SHARE, BE OPEN WITH YOUR FAVORITE THINGS, SO OTHERS WILL BUY THEM, AND SO THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN DEMAND.

Anyway "Sweet Seasons" takes me to a different time and place. A wonderful song!!!

Great story sessionjams, especially about your aunt. Wish you plenty more sweet seasons to come

priceless!

Thank you. And, as a fellow musician, I would say that the similarities do not extend beyond the groove and the tempo. I do, however, wish that "Sweet Season" had a chorus that modulated to a different key (a la Steely Dan's "Bad Sneakers" or Todd Rundgren's "Waiting Game").That would elevate its status from good to great.

Just finished Carole King's new autobio. Good book. Worth reading.

Give me an example or two of songs which came from this one

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This song has musical commonalities with Steely Dan's "My Old School"-- they have a similar groove.

The hear and now disc for the optigan is clearly based of of this song bearing somewhat close cover art to that of tapestry

My favorite Carole King song! Rebkins56

This song was stolen so many times in the 70's - Carole wouldn't care though

Oh! Carole! ;-)