Those Crazy Days of Summer [W, 8-14-24]

BEYOND WINTER: The Irrelevant Musings of an Old Man--Those Crazy Days of Summer [W, 8-14-24]

 

 

It’s a long, hot summer. Picnics. Heat domes. Swimming pools. Cooling stations. VBS. Humidity. Picnics. Hurricanes. Baseball. Wild fires. County fairs…

So, as I walked, I found myself singing Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer, a hit song for Nat King Cole back in 1963…

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

Those days of soda and pretzels and beer

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer

 

Fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies

Then lock the house up, now you’re set

And on the beach you’ll see the girls in their bikinis

As cute as ever but they never get ‘em wet

 

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

Those days of soda and pretzels and beer

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer

 

You’ll wish that summer could always be here

You’ll wish that summer could always be here

 

NO! Not with global warming. Summer is always here too much. We’re going to melt away. So I pulled out a song I wrote in my days in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to help balance our view of the weather …

 

Run from those wheezing, sneezing, freezing days of winter

Those days of snow storms and parkas in May

Run from those wheezing, sneezing, freezing days of winter

I wish that winter would just go away

 

Just fill your backpack with venison and bear steaks

Get your snowshoes and mittens and you’re set

And in their parkas you’ll see girlies eating pancakes

Nobody’s stuck their tongue on the pump handle yet

 

Run from those wheezing, sneezing, freezing days of winter

Those days of snow storms and parkas in May

Run from those wheezing, sneezing, freezing days of winter

I wish that winter would just go away

 

Hang on. You’ll be singing this soon enough.

John Robert McFarland