Winter songs - I think half the country gets snow today or tomorrow

[rurallib]

Simon and Garfunkel "A hazy shade of Winter"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSd4QJBEMvk&feature=related

Winter Wonderland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcXSm51UI5M

oops - forgot the nearly unknown Suzy Snowflake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3F2Zh4s10&feature=related

[tigereye]

1. Fire and Wine by Steve Ashley is my favorite this season

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4UW_HEJWPw

[livetohike]

2. Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVG2eF40hzE

The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still within the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me

If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you

The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are liftin'
The morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are driftin'

If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
And to be once again with you

[MorningGlow]

3. "February" by Dar Williams

One of the most melancholy songs I've ever heard. (I love it.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-v-UgNhuI


I threw your keys in the water, I looked back, 

They'd frozen halfway down in the ice. 

They froze up so quickly, the keys and their owners, 

Even after the anger, it all turned silent, and 

The everyday turned solitary, 

So we came to February. 



First we forgot where we’d planted those bulbs last year, 

Then we forgot that we’d planted at all, 

Then we forgot what plants are altogether, 

and I blamed you for my freezing and forgetting and 

The nights were long and cold and scary,

Can we live through February? 



You know I think Christmas was a long red glare, 

Shot up like a warning, we gave presents without cards,

And then the snow, 

And then the snow came, we were always out shoveling, 

And we’d drop to sleep exhausted, 

Then we’d wake up, and it’s snowing. 



And February was so long that it lasted into March

And found us walking a path alone together. 

You stopped and pointed and you said, "That's a crocus," 

And I said, "What's a crocus?" and you said, "It’s a flower," 

I tried to remember, but I said, "What's a flower?" 

You said, "I still love you." 



The leaves were turning as we drove to the hardware store, 

My new lover made me keys to the house, 

And when we got home, well we just started chopping wood, 

Because you never know how next year will be, 

And we’ll gather all our arms can carry, 

I have lost to February.

[mix]

4. Doves - Winter Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdADAUF-xhE