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Where the Divil is Spring?

by Robert Palomo - New Old Sea Shanties & Songs

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The song idea came into my head back in 2013 after a Facebook post in which I wrote "It may be warming globally, but it's FREEZING locally!" Saint Patrick's Day that year dawned at around -20 Celsius in Saint Petersburg. No end to winter in sight, global warming notwithstanding. 2019 is shaping up no better and it's GETTING OLD!

Also in 2019, my native island has become infested with snakes of an especially malevolent character. I decided to bring this old heretofore unreleased track out of mothballs and cast it upon the waters for St. Paddy's Day in hopes that the Good Saint might stage a repeat performance on American shores.

So here's a slightly raunchy comic tune, sung with a horrible pseudo Chicago-Irish accent, dedicated to my appropriately named friend Patrick in Riga, and my Irish-descended songwriter friend Greg C. in Minnesota (he knows winter when he sees it), who first challenged me to come up with a banjo-centric song for St. Paddy's Day.

P.S. Especially for my American compatriots who may have some misgivings about the word "FECK!" used extensively in this song - it doesn't mean what your prurient mind is probably thinking it means, and it is not considered a no-no word in Ireland. Just so you know.

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Today upon St. Paddy’s Day it may be warmin’ globally
But this much we can safely say, it’s feckin’ freezin’ locally
The snow lies thick upon the ground
A banshee wind is howlin’ round
But since St. Paddy’s Day is here
Let’s gather for some warmth and cheer
And swill another Irish beer and curse the bloody weather
And shout out all together

CHORUS:
Feck feck feck feck
Where the hell is spring time
Feck feck feck feck
Oh where th’ divil is Spring?
Feck feck feckity feck
Where the hell is spring time
Feck feck feck feck
Oh where th’ divil is Spring?

Today upon St. Paddy’s Day the winter seems eternal
Like snakes that Paddy drove away, damned cold and infernal
White is all that can be seen
There ain’t a trace o’ emerald green
But since St. Paddy’s Day is here
Let’s gather for some warmth and cheer
And swill another Irish beer and curse the bloody weather
And shout out all together

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
All around is feckin’ white
Gleamin’ piles o’ frozen shite
Me arse is freezin’ ivery night
O curse this bloody weather!
And shout out all together

CHORUS 2X

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released March 15, 2019
Written, performed and produced by Robert Palomo.
The banjo is an early 1970s Stewart Macdonald aluminum pot kit banjo.
Guitar is a nondescript 90s Martin D35
Everything else is GarageBand virtual instruments.
Recorded in GarageBand 2009
Mastered with Ozone 7 in 2019.

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Robert Palomo - New Old Sea Shanties & Songs Saint Petersburg, Russia

Robert Palomo plays & records "new old sea songs" - his own brand of Sea Shanties & Maritime Folk Music. After 26 years in the historic and beautiful port of Saint Petersburg, Russia, he and his wife and dogs were forced to abandon ship for their own safety in the spring of 2022. ... more

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