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Thread #21946   Message #2331004
Posted By: GUEST,Paul F. Anderson
01-May-08 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nikolina (trad. Swedish song)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nikolina (trad. Swedish song)
I'm not aware of any site for downloading "The Drifting, Whistling Snow", but you might try buying a used copy of the aforementioned album on the Soma label. Stan Boreson recorded the song on his album "Those Swedish Meatballs Are At It Again". You can buy the CD at his web site: http://www.stanboreson.com.

Here are the lyrics for the song.

THE DRIFTING, WHISTLING SNOW

Was a cold December evening and the winds began to blow,
And soon everything was covered by the drifting, whistling snow.

I found the valley of the drifting, whistling snow between two great big snow banks when I opened my door next morning. And for hours and hours I wandered aimlessly through the snow seeking the answers to the many questions that was racing through my feeble brain. Where was everything? Where was the sidewalk? Where was my driveway? My old jalopy? At last I was all pooped out, so I took a chew of snoose and scratched my head and wondered where to go. Then all at once I realized I was a prisoner here in the valley of the drifting, whistling snow.

Then my wife she whispered to me, "I've got to go to Ladies' Aid.
"Shovel out that old jalopy." And she handed me the spade.

Now the settlers and the miners fought those crazy Navahos,
But I tell you that was nothing like the drifting, whistling snow.

So I took my scoop and started where that old jalopy stood,
And after endless hours of shoveling snow all I saw was just the hood.

Then the snow began to whistling, and the wind began to blow.
And my jalopy still is resting 'neath the drifting, whistling snow.

How I left my old snow shovel lying there upon the snow
While I went in the house to dry my hands and warm frozen toes.

While I was gone the snow bank began to grow and grow.
Now my shovel too is resting 'neath the drifting, whistling snow.

The drifting, whistling snow!


As recorded by Slim Jim and The Westerners with the Honeytones
Parody of "The Shifting, Whispering Sands"