Outdoor Hums For Snowy Weather
by The Heavy Boxes
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Sleigh Ride
02:33
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Eventual Mittens
01:22
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I found my perfect evergreen
Prettiest tree at the shop
Trouble, you see, is that li’l ol’ me
Can’t reach to the tippy top
But my star needs its home at the top!
I bake a tray of gingerbread cookies each year
Now it seems I have twice what I need here.
I bought I ball of yarn today
Yellow eventual mittens
But I must admit I never learned to knit
Didn’t one time you say you knew how?
I’m ready for my lesson now.
My stocking is hung by the chimney with care,
Surely old Saint Nick will leave me sugar plums to spare.
Building a snowman family
The boyfriend reminds me of you
Please just stop by so I can get the eyes right
This picture will never do.
Plus I’ve changed some, my hair is new.
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The Wassail Song
02:03
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Sweater Weather
02:36
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I’m not sure why everyone is saying
The colors of the leaves are a-changing.
Same old routine every fall;
I don’t call that change at all.
But I guess that’s hypocritical;
I am no less predictable.
My consistency consists of this:
Every autumn it’s you who I miss.
Think about you all through sweater weather
Stuck in my mind once we hit September
Autumn oughtta comfort me
But I met her in sweater weather.
Once I’ve had my second mug of cocoa
I move to the other side of the sofa
Close my eyes, stick out my feet
Onto what was just my seat.
I pretend it’s you providing the heat
A perfectly harmless little deceit
Pathetic, you bet, it is true:
I’m not doing so well without you.
Think about you all through sweater weather
Stuck in my mind once we hit September
Autumn oughtta comfort me
But I met her in sweater weather
But I met her in sweater weather.
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Mistletoe
03:27
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There is something I would like to know:
What exactly is mistletoe?
Is it a crop that farmers sow?
In what climate does it grow?
Can it survive through the frost and snow
And crop attacks from those pesky crows?
What if it turns out to not have seeds?
How sad would it be to read
That mistletoe is not a plant indeed
But merely a kind of noxious weed?
How could I let that weed proceed
To lie, hoodwink, and mislead?
Then to stop my idle wonder
You point out I’m standing under
Mistletoe with you, which means
We’ve got better things to do, it seems
That we’ve got better things to do.
Are there certain controversial views
Making mistletoe a topic for the news?
Is there a medicinal use?
Or recreational abuse?
I know the side effects it can produce:
I start to blush and I feel confused.
There’s a quick solution to my series
Of neurotic mistletoe-related theories.
But I’d rather ponder weak and weary
Than Wikipedia the queries.
I’m too afraid if it said I was right
I wouldn’t sleep through Christmas night.
Then to stop my idle wonder
You point out I’m standing under
Mistletoe with you, which means
We’ve got better things to do, it seems
That we’ve got better things to do.
Then to stop my idle wonder
You point out I’m standing under
Mistletoe with you, which means
We’ve got better things to do, it seems
That we’ve got better things to do.
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about
“He sang it like that, which is much the best way of singing it, and when he had finished, he waited for Piglet to say that, of all the Outdoor Hums for Snowy Weather he had ever heard, this was the best.”
credits
released December 6, 2008
Performed by
Melanie Faetz: vocals, glockenspiel
Evan Chung: vocals, piano, bass, ukulele, melodica, Vox organ, Wurlitzer, sleigh bells
Featuring
Kimberly Sutton: cello
Produced by Evan Chung
Cover Art by Melanie Faetz
Special Thanks to Papa Faetz
Recorded at The Holodeck, Chicago, IL
Performed by
Melanie Faetz: vocals, glockenspiel
Evan Chung: vocals, piano, bass, ukulele, melodica, Vox organ, Wurlitzer, sleigh bells
Featuring
Kimberly Sutton: cello
Produced by Evan Chung
Cover Art by Melanie Faetz
Special Thanks to Papa Faetz
Recorded at The Holodeck, Chicago, IL
license
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discography
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Aug 2010 -
Dec 2008
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