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This has zero to do with my subject for this month’s column, though suppose only how most Engelbert Humperdinck’s facile propagandize clergyman contingency have hated doing purpose call each day. (Humperdinck? Humperdinck? Oh, for Pete’s sake…class dismissed!)
Back in a days of classical crooners like Engelbert and Dean Martin, artists would glamorize winter with songs like Winter World Of Love, or It’s A Marshmallow World. Politically scold decades forward of a stream complicated civilization, those singles weren’t utterly Christmas songs, rather some-more of a matter on a altogether feeling of a winter season.
Romanticizing a deteriorate aside, anyone who has had to trowel their 300-yard drive for a third time on a same day competence not be humming utterly such a contented tune.
In a suggestion of capturing a some-more accurate depiction of a Canadian winter season, here’s a few pretension suggestions for some new songs (to sing in a good comfortable prohibited tub), when a mercury hits -47 F.
My apologies in advance. Some of these admittedly competence be ripped off from tangible renouned strain titles, though for many others you’ll need to come adult with your possess melodies. Say, doesn’t a iPhone have a piano app?
Here we go:
House Of The Rising Snow Drifts
We’re Selling The Shovel – We Bought A Condo, Condo, Condo
I’d Gladly Trade My Trendy Red Mittens (For A Leopard-Print Speedo In Mexico)
There’s Just About Enough Snow Coming Down (To Bury That Goofy Couple From The Canadian Tire Commercials)
Dude, Where’s My Car (In That Snowbank, In That Snowbank)
Walk This Way (Snowshoes Or Skis Needed Today)
The Reluctant St. Bernard Blues (No Way, Too Much Snow Even For Me)
Ice Ice Baby (The Highway Skating Rink Song)
Itsy-Bitsy Teenie-Weenie Yellow-Polka-Dot Snowmobile Suit
Save A Horse, Ride A Snowman
The Green Green Grass Of Home (Is Buried Under Three Feet Of Snow)
It Sure Don’t Feel Like Summer (With My Eyelids Frozen Shut)
Shiver Me Timbers (I Think Me Marrow’s Froze…)
Jack Frost’s Nippin’ At My Nose (Like A Rabid Great White Shark)
The Hot Rum Toddie Boogie (Grandma’s Rosy Cheeks)
Is It Cold In Here? (Or Is My New Roommate An Iceberg?)
Big Cool Daddy’s Shoulda-Paid-The-Heating-Bill Shuffle
Toboggan Road
You Don’t Know Me (Under All These Layers Of Flannel Clothes)
Frostbite (Puts A Damper On Our Cross-Country Ski Trip)
I Don’t Care If It Is A Work Day (I Ain’t Leavin’ This Warm Bed)
Summer In The City (Winter In Waikiki)
Man, we Feel Like A Parka
Gotta Dance (I Can’t Feel My Toes Anymore)
Prop Me Up Beside The JukeBox (Until we Thaw)
No More Scrapin’ My Windshield (I’m Gonna Build Me A Garage)
Hit Me Baby One More Time (The Snowball Challenge Song)
Slippin’ Slidin’ (The Automobile Insurance Company Profit Song)
Hey, however we tend to perspective winter personally, have a protected and comfortable deteriorate everyone! Best wishes, and see we in a new year.
Humour columnist and author Dan St. Yves was protected with Royal LePage Kelowna for 11 years. Check out his website during www.nonsenseandstuff.com, or hit him during ThatDanGuy@shaw.ca.
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