The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31575   Message #412081
Posted By: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
06-Mar-01 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In)
Subject: Lyr Add: OH, COLD AND MISERY (Charlie Maguire)
Then there's this great winter song from the Minnesota glacial drifts:

OH, COLD AND MISERY
(Words & Music by Charlie Maguire © 1981)

It was ear-ly one morn, like so man-y be-fore,
Oh, cold and mis-er-y,
I put on me coat and walked out the door,
Stand-ing a-lone on the froz-en ground.

I went to the place where my beast lay asleep...
On four tires of rubber, a long cord in its teeth...

I opened the door and I jammed in the key...
Not a sound did I hear, nor exhaust did I see...

So I went to my neighbor, to him I did spoke...
And he soon came a-riding on clouds of white smoke...

We went to my beast and pried open its jaws...
But black, icy darkness was all that we saw...

On its terminals bare, long cables I placed...
And I gave it a charge with revenge on my face...

The smell of the ether did hang in the air...
And empty Heet cans lay about everywhere...

And when we were moving, its anger was gone...
From its radio voice came music and song...

But tonight, when the dark comes to its moving parts...
It will again be the beast with the ice in its heart...

Looks like we'll get at least another foot of this white fluffy stuff before it's over.