Hope this song helps you make it through the snow and ice until Spring…:o)
January & The Summer Folks
January 1978 | Song # 14
January comes to my town just once a year
Visits for a while and then kicks on out of here
Leaving ice on the telephone wires
And a blanket of snow on the dormant backyard sapphires
Of the swimming pools, the summer jewels…
The streetlights through my window
Look like ghosts veiled in snow
Haunting the cars that struggle through
The drifts of the road below
The wind sounds like an interstate.
It threatens to take my home away
And a friend or relative asks me to play
A “summer song”…a “right where they belong” song…
So I create…
Kids playing tag outside the screen door
They laugh a little now and they laugh a little more
The grass is green in the yard and
There’s plenty to eat from the garden
Sing a summer song for the summer folks
Sit into the night on the porch telling jokes
Watching the moon and the starts for hours or
Sitting inside during thunder showers
Singing of blue skies and ice cream cones
Bare feet on sun warmed stones
Sing a summer song for the summer folks
Sit into the night on the porch telling jokes
But no matter what song you sing
You must have patience in the end
Because sooner or later Spring will push
Winter round the bend…
January comes to my town
Once a year
Visits for a while and then
Kicks…on…out of here….
Tuning DADGAD
© 1978-2009 by Mark Shepard, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved
Commentary: This is one of the early ones. Pretty self explanatory. I was 17 years old when I wrote this. recorded it sometime in the 1990′s. I hope it helps to make it through the tough months if you live somewhere cold. If you live somewhere warm…well send us some sun okay? – Mark
