Springtime in the Winter

from The Odd One Out by Twisted Anvil

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No idea where this song came from, I heard my father sing the first verse of it, and after finding nothing about it on google (thinking it was perhaps an old Victorian nonsense song), I decided to write music for it and add two verses of my own. Later I discovered that it was an obscure schoolboy thing, sung to the melody of 'Springtime in the Rockies.' When I listened to this song, it sounded nothing like the music I'd put to the nonsense version. So there we go, I'm not breaching copyright anywhere, so there.

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It was springtime in the winter, and the snow was raining fast,
A bare-footed man with boots on came slowly whizzing past,
He turned a straight, crooked corner to see a dead donkey die,
He took out his knife to shoot him, and the donkey spat in his eye,

The man was calmly angry as the donkey ran away,
He was sadly glad he'd killed it that snowy summer day,
He walked as he skipped to his hometown, and at noon he got off the train,
It was lovely and dry for the night time, but his head got wet in the rain,

His bald head got quite soggy, so he ran his hand through his hair,
Then out of the woods lightly lumbered a small, yet massive bear,
The man slowly whipped out his pistol to stab the beast in the head,
The bear raised a paw to bite him, but the man was already dead.

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from The Odd One Out, released December 26, 2013

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