The Saskatoon itch and all that kind of stuff. It’s a song that was inspired by the part of the country that I come from, a place called Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which really isn’t a disease although I’ve seen it in some medical journals. I like to plug it because I get royalties on the song of course.

It has been recorded as a single by a friend of mine by the name of Tom Rush and it’s available in the area. Joni introduced the song this way on Novemat the Wisdom Tooth: Joni collaborated with Lisa and John Sornberger by making these changes for presentation in their book, Gathered Light. This lyric has been formatted exactly as Joni preferred it to appear (capitalization, punctuation, line breaks, changes in wording, etc). Now the warriors of winter give a cold triumphant shoutĪnd all that stays is dying all that lives is gettin' outįlapping and racing on before the snow.Īnd have her stay for just another month or so.

And all the trees are shivering in a naked row.Īnd summertime is falling down and winter is closing inĪnd summertime was falling down and winter was closing in

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