Urge For Going



I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town

It hovered in a frozen sky, then it gobbled summer down

When the sun turns traitor cold

and shivering trees are standing in a naked row

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



I get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in



I had me a man in summertime

He had summer-colored skin

And not another girl in town

My darling's heart could win

But when the leaves fell trembling down

Bully winds did rub their faces in the snow

He got the urge for going And I had to let him go



He got the urge for going

When the meadow grass was turning brown

Summertime was falling down and winter was closing in



The warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout

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

See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow

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



They get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in



I'll ply the fire with kindling and pull the blankets to my chin

and I'll the vagrant winter out and bolt my wandering in

I'd like to call back summertime and have her stay jut another month or so

She's got the urge for going and I guess she'll have to go



And she get the urge for going when meadow grass is turning brown

All her empires are falling down

winter's closing in