GROUNDHOG DAY CAROLS CELBRATE THIS SPECIAL TIME OF YEAR

As they have for the past four years, a group of local people celebrated Groundhog Day by singing Groundhog Day Carols in the East Portal of Philadelphia City Hall at Noon on Friday, February 1, 2008.

Singing new words to traditional songs by singer/songwriters John and Jan Haigis, the singers celebrated this special time of year when we are ready for spring but spring is not quite ready for us. Groundhog Day marks the midpoint between the solstice and the equinox, (40 days before,  40 days after) and the light quality is changing, but the snow is falling and we are stuck once more in the middle of winter and longing for spring.

Please join us as we welcome continuing hope of SPRING !!!!!!!  Questions? Please call (610) 58300788 or visit www.PastTimesPresent.com

Sample-Groundhog Sleeping Underground       (Tune "Angels We Have Heard On High")                Sample: Heating Bills : (Tune "Jingle Bells")

I Don't Believe the Groundhog

The Hibernating Groundhog

(for practice)

(Tune: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

(Tune: The Holly and the Ivy)

I don't believe the Groundhog

The Hibernating Groundhog

When he forecasts early spring

Makes a furry little ball

I think he makes his money

From his burrow deep beneath the snow

From ski-wear manufacturing

His tidings cheer us all

He makes prognostications

The warming of the sun, in the flowing of the year

From the top of Gobbler's Knob

The seasons cycle in their course

But if you ask my opinion

Means that spring will soon be here

I think it's all a big snow job

They say he talks in Groundhogese

See you at noon.

On this special day

But if they woke me up like that

I think I'd have a lot to say

So listen to the Groundhog

Holler out in Groundhogese

Dammit I miss my slumber

The bunch of you can just go freeze