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Winter Song

Capo 5th fret


C
Listen to the wind blow.
                               F              C
"All the way from Canada," the weather man explains,
                                    F
"That's why we got all this snow instead of a lot of rain."
G7
Need to get your warm clothes on if you gonna go skating on the pond -
C
Didn't I tell you so?
G7                 C
Listen to the wind blow.

Listen to the trees sigh,
Standing in the freezing wind and feeling the old year die,
Catching the winter's chilly kiss in the gray and the lowering sky.
Better check there's kindling in the box, put on two pair of good warm socks,
No need to ask me why.
Listen to the trees sigh.

   F
It always catches me unawares: frost on the redwood picnic chairs,
C                             C7
Birds I'm used to seeing fly away.
    F
The child within me starts to glow when the air begins to taste of snow,
      G7
And I dream my crazy dream of a one-horse sleigh.

Listen to the bells ring
Up and down the snowy hill attached to wooden sleds.
Bells on woolen mittens, bells on goggled woolen heads.
You wanna take a laughing spill, try your luck on a snowy hill.
Wanna hear winter sing?
Listen to the bells ring.

It always catches me unawares: frost on the redwood picnic chairs,
Birds I'm used to seeing fly away.
The child within me starts to glow when the air begins to taste of snow,
And I dream my crazy dream of a one-horse sleigh.

Listen to the bells ring
Up and down the snowy hill attached to wooden sleds.
Bells on woolen mittens, bells on goggled woolen heads.
You wanna take a laughing spill, try your luck on a snowy hill.
Wanna hear winter sing?
Listen to the bells ring.
Wanna hear winter sing?
Listen to the bells ring.

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, 1978)

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