SUMMER IS A WINTER

by Glenn Grant

First performed at the Eine Kleine Nacht Musik evening, McMurdo Station, winter 1997.

Verse chords: G D C G Am Am/F# G Em Am D7 G

Chorus chords: D Am D Am D Am C D G

I'm jonesing for the junipers, I'm pining for the pines

I want to hug a willow tree, I want to make it mine

Walk among the plants and flowers

Sit out on the grass for hours

Do nothing but enjoy the warm sunshine.

Chorus:

I'm waiting for the sunrise It's been

four long months of starry skies

I haven't seen a raindrop for a year

As long as I remember It's been

cold and windy like December

And summer is a winter way down here.

Make it down here with my mail, fly me down those freshies

Bring me fruits and vegetables-- get 'em from the Kiwis

Winfly is just days away

It's been fun but I can't stay

Hurry down but you can keep the finn-gees.

[Chorus]

Sidewalk cafes and restaurants with different kinds of spice

Dux Delux has microbrews and bowls of wild rice

I want that C-5 back to Cheech

To run my toes along a beach

And they don't have a Starbucks on the ice.