Here's the Tom Rush version. Beautiful song, wonderful use of words. Someone once said Rush is the only male who should be allowed to sing this song, though Dave Van Ronk has an interesting version, too.

URGE FOR GOING - Tom Rush
Written by Joni Mitchell

INTRODUCTION

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town,
It hovered in a frozen sky and it gobbled summer down.
When the sun turns traitor cold,
And all the trees are shivering in a naked row,
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go.

And I get the urge for going, when the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter's closing in.

I had a man in summertime, he had summer colored skin,
And not another girl in town that darling's heart could win,
But when the leaves fell on the ground,
And bully winds come around and pushed them face down in the snow,
He got the urge for goin', and I had to let him go.

He got the urge for going when the meadow grass was turning brown,
And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in.

Now the warriors of winter they give a cold triumphant shout.
All that stays is dying, all that lives is getting out.
See the geese in chevron flight,
Flapping and a-racin' on before the snow,
They got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go.

They get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown,
Summertime is falling down and winter's closing in.

REPEAT INTRODUCTION

I'll ply the fire with kindling, I'll pull the blankets to my chin,
I'll lock the vagrant winter out and I'll bolt my wandering in.
I'd like to call back summertime,
And have her stay for just another month or so,
But she's got the urge for going so I guess she'll have to go.

She gets the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown,
And all her empire's falling down and winter's closing in,
And I get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown,
And summertime is falling down.

REPEAT INTRODUCTION