Well I woke up today and found frost perched on the town

It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down

And when the sun turned straight and cold and shiverin'

Trees are standing in a naked row

I get the urge for going and I never seem to go



I had someone in the summer time with summer coloured skin

And not another one in town my darling's heart could win

And when the leaves fell tumbling down and bully winds did rub their faces

in the snow

He got the urge for goin and I had to let him go



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Well he got the urge for going

When the meadow grasses are turnin' brown

Summer time is a fallin' down

Winter's closing in



And the warriors of winter gave a cold triumphant shout

All that stays is dying and all that lives is getting out

You see the geese in chevron flight a flapping and a racing on before the snow

They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings to go



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I'll pile the fire with kindlin' and pull the blankets to my chin

I'll lock the vagrant winter out and bolt my wanderin' in

I'd like to call back summertime and let her stay for just another month or so

But she's got the urge for goin, and I'll have to let her go



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