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Six More Weeks of Winter

from Green Beans & Tangerines by Walter Martin

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This is my Groundhog Day song. Written in winter while dreaming of spring. When my 7 year old heard the first line she said, "It's a groundhog Daddy, not a woodchuck." I told her I was playing dumb and trying to be funny and she said it was just dumb.

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Six more weeks of winter
Yeah that’s what the woodchuck said
Mumbled something about his shadow
Then he crawled back in his shed

But man, these days the nights are long
It's like I’m living in a dream
Sometimes I don’t know what is real
And what is make believe

So hey
I could use a little holiday
Some cheap little getaway
Where I can say, "Oooh oooh!"

But for now I got
Six more weeks of winter
Six more weeks of chicken stew
pink eye, lice and stomach flu
Ill be lucky if I make it through

i close my eyes and fantasize
That I’m somewhere faraway
Where the ocean smells like coconuts
And it tastes like lemonade

But I wake up and the dream is gone
And I remember where I am
When I see a crow eating a frozen dead rat
From my neighbor's garbage can

But oh
Just 42 days to go
'Till the sun melts the filthy snow
And to the tiki bar I will go

But for now I got
Six more weeks of winter
Six more weeks of freezing rain
Frozen pipes and tire chains
Driving me insane

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from Green Beans & Tangerines, released March 16, 2020
Written by Walter Martin

Recorded at Silent Partner, Philadelphia by Matt Barrick and by Walter Martin at Cecelia's, Brooklyn.

Matt Barrick: drums
Josh Kaufman: electric guitar
Walter Martin: everything else

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Walter Martin is a multi-award-winning songwriter. Martin has released seven studio albums since embarking on a solo career in 2014. His solo career follows many years of writing, playing and touring in rock 'n' roll bands The Walkmen and Jonathan Fire*Eater. ... more

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