Shaking out the Snow - Nanci Griffith

Snowing — through Dakota I once drove

With the wife of my best pal

Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold

It was well into the winter

Of December in the cold

Off to see Mount Rushmore staring through the snow

And to gamble with the boys of Deadwood

As we drove

Snowing — I am shaking out the snow

Oh, the cold that is within my heart

I’m gonna shake out all that snow

Riding years ago

Through those South Dakota roads

When the laughter could thaw Enderby

And shake me from the snow

Like a hurricane through Florida

I’ll shake out all this snow

Snowing — one Christmas morn' when I was four

My brother told me it was warm

So a swimsuit I adorned

Then he sent me to the weather

And behind me locked the doors

A four year old in a swim suit and brand new plastic skates

Out into the snow to catch this cold

I cannot shake

Snowing — yeah, it snows in Tennessee

The place where I now make my life

Is still snowing down on me

I’d prefer Antarctica

Perhaps the land of Enderby

Where the weather is my heart and I’m closer to the sea

Since I cannot ever seem to shake the snow

Out of me

And all across the states you see the tractors and the plows

Clearing out the roads

And the bridges north and south

Something they did learn

And I just don’t seem to know

How to clear a passage

And shake out all the snow