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ADD: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup

18 Dec 00 - 09:43 AM (#359000)
Subject: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

Heard on NPR, it was a great song, woman singer, don't know the name. It was about, oddly enough, soup, and how great it is in the wintertime. I remember part of the chorus listed all kinds of soup, "potato soup tomato soup da da da dam, ...soup ...soup split pea with ham..." I've searched the trad and the NPR site, no go. Would like complete lyrics and name of singer or group. This was part of an all-acoustic section heard I think last night, but it might have been the night before. Thanks, all!

-MrrWhoWantsSoupForLunchOnThisColdDay

18 Dec 00 - 10:15 AM (#359022)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

It was on the show called Acoustic Cafe, Fri and Sun 8-midnight on WMRA in Central Virginia, but I recommend the show to everyone who gets NPR. FYI.

18 Dec 00 - 10:54 AM (#359043)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

More info - it's by John McCutcheon, someone says!

18 Dec 00 - 12:06 PM (#359084)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: lamarca

Sounds like a wonderful song, Mrrzy! I found the lyrics here:

http://www.folkmusic.com/record/r_winter.htm#Soup

It has lyrics for all the songs from McCutcheons WinterSongs album...

18 Dec 00 - 01:55 PM (#359165)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

Thanks! Anything Worth Waiting For Is Gonna Take Time...my new motto!

18 Dec 00 - 03:25 PM (#359215)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: GUEST,LynnT

You're right that it's a John M song; you may have heard the nifty version done by a DC-area group called Hot Soup; I believe they have a CD out with that on it, as well as a bunch of other stuff with nice tight jazzy harmonies.

"It smells like winter at our house -- it smells like SOUP"

Lynn T, lucky enough to hear these ladies regularly at local venues...

18 Dec 00 - 03:29 PM (#359217)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Bert

No thread about soup is complete without a look at these gals

24 Jul 02 - 11:55 PM (#754187)
Subject: Lyr Add: SOUP (John McCutcheon, Si Kahn)
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://www.folkmusic.com/record/r_winter.htm#Soup

SOUP
(c) 1995 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP) & Si Kahn/Joe Hill Music (ASCAP)

Get off the bus and I can see my breath
Air's so cold that you could freeze to death
I turn up my collar and the wind starts to blowing
Sky turns gray and it starts to snowing
I put down my head; it's only two blocks more
Make it to my house and then I open the door

CHO: It smells like winter at our house
Smells like winter at our house
Smells like winter at our house
Smells like soup

When my Dad was a kid in my Grandma's home
She taught him how to start with an old soup bone
You put the onions, carrots, celery, and water in the pot
It only takes a little of whatever you've got
"There ain't no way to hurry it," my Grandma would remind
"Anything worth waiting for is gonna take time" CHO.

All day I hear it simmering in the pot
Sneak up to the lid; be careful it's hot
Lift up the corner and I take a little sniff
Close my eyes and take a great big whiff
Go and get a tablespoon, to steal a little taste
I got a big soup smile all over my face CHO.

Bean soup, chicken soup with macaroni
Cream of broccoli, minestrone
Potato soup, tomato soup, chowder made of clam
Miso soup, mushroom soup, split pea with ham
Bouillon, scallion, tom kha ghai with lemongrass
Matzo ball, chili bean, cream of asparagus CHO.

So it doesn't even matter if the cold winds blow
If the rivers freeze and there's three feet of snow
From my Dad and my Grandma it's what I got
The put a whole lotta love in that old black pot
In my mind I see a little boy, a distant winter day
He's standing at the door and I can hear him say CHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOMTMH50mo

26 Jul 02 - 01:28 AM (#754771)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: open mike

when john mcCutcheon sings this he emphasizes th "P" in souP--sort of reminds you of slurping up a big spoon-ful-- Greg Brown's favorite recipe might be for the "slow soup" he sings about...

26 Jul 02 - 08:01 PM (#755231)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: X

I once had a friend who liked to lesson to the radio when he took a bath. One night the radio dropped into the bathtub when he was taking his bath. We found him the next day…He smelled like soup.

27 Jul 02 - 02:42 AM (#755375)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: open mike

yuck--gross! i prefer a vegetarian stock-- like minestrone...yum-- or split pea--without the ham hocks...

13 Jan 22 - 12:56 PM (#4132257)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: open mike

the lyric that rhymes with pea soup with ham is chowder with clam....

15 Jan 22 - 05:12 PM (#4132473)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

I forgot ALL about this. Off to make soup! We should get another foot of snow tonight...

15 Jan 22 - 05:12 PM (#4132474)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

That link is not working...

15 Jan 22 - 05:15 PM (#4132475)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Mrrzy

McCutcheon performing it...

15 Jan 22 - 06:08 PM (#4132487)
Subject: RE: ADD: Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
From: Joe Offer

Here's McCutcheon's studio recording of "Soup," from his Wintersongs album: