NEW FILK: In honor of today's record-high temperature of 73...in Atlanta

[thatcrazycajun]

Yes, you read right. Today the high temperature in Atlanta, GA was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. (That's 22.8° Celsius for all you metric-system-using furriners.) In honor of the sudden burst of shirtsleeve weather in what had been a fairly normal December for this part of the deep South (i.e., cold but not frigid), I wrote this parody today.

WHERE'S THE SNOW?
Music: "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Jule Styne, 1945
Parody lyrics by Matt G. Leger

Oh, the weather outside's delightful
If you don't want Christmas white-ful...
Where the heck did winter go?
Where's the snow, where's the snow, where's the snow?

Temps this high I can't remember
Ever seeing in December --
Up to seventy degrees or so...
Where's the snow, where's the snow, where's the snow?

Now, I know that we live down south,
And up north's where the snow tends to storm,
But there no longer can be doubt
That this old globe's getting warm!

Last week I needed a jacket;
Now it seems I won't have to pack it.
But it bums the kids out, you know --
Where's the snow, where's the snow, where's the snow?

Parody lyrics ©2008 by Matt G. Leger. Public performance or recording for profit requires prior written consent from all copyright holders. All other uses of these lyrics freely permitted so long as this notice is retained unaltered. Not intended as infringement on any existing copyrights.

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Cute. I thought, when I saw the title in the cut-tag, that it was parodying "Play It Slow," -- the actual source didn't occur to me!

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

"Where's the snow?"

Um, New England and Las Vegas.

(just checked my Mac's Dashboard): And I guess my bout with it is in the form of precipitating ICE!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

And northern PA. The start of our winter CSA farmshare is postponed yet another week because the roads around the farms are CLOSED till Penn DOT gets to clearing them. And if it weren't for the Internet we wouldn't even know that.

Welcome to Global Warming.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

You will find, as the territory of your neighbour Florida slowly vanishes under miles-long sinkholes full of sea water, that there will be a considerable up-tick in your tourism from all the snowbirds sick of getting their feet wet in the encroaching swamps of Tampa. Oh, and watch for that sovereignty-effort by those ex-pat Cubanas when some real-estate moguls try and terraform Miami into its own free-standing island paradise in order to capitalise on the disappearance of the Bahamas. Just a friendly heads-up.

this snow was heavy

[janmagic.livejournal.com]

your song brought a smile to my tired from snow pushing body

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Heh. Just ten years ago, living in Massachusetts, I had similar feelings... and I'll pass them on to you.

Admonition in Unseasonable Weather

thnidu, © 1998
ttto "Try to Remember" from the musical The Fantasticks

Early December, 1998, brought some remarkable days to the Boston area, more like early fall than the grim damp cloudy chill we're used to around that time. But we knew it couldn't last.

Try to remember that this is December
Although you go without a sweater.
Try to remember, although for December
The air is fair, and rarely better.
Try to remember that since it's December
The snow will soon render you cold and wetter.
Try to remember the rest of December
Will follow. (Follow, follow, follow, follow...)