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's City Hall at Noon on Tuesday,  February 2, 2010.The following Saturday we were hit with over 20" of snow...coincidence?
Singing new words to traditional songs by singer/songwriters John and Jan Haigis  folks will celebrate this special time of year (when we are all 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, it is still cold,  and we are stuck once more in the middle of winter and longing for spring. Song Sheets will be provided
Please join us as we welcome continuing hope of SPRING !!!!!!!  Questions? Please call (610) 58300788 or visit www.PastTimesPresent.com
(for practice)
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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
(Tune: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
(Tune: The Holly and the Ivy)
I don't believe the Groundhog
When he forecasts early spring
The Hibernating Groundhog
I think he makes his money
Makes a furry little ball
From ski-wear manufacturing
From his burrow deep beneath the snow
He makes prognostications
His tidings cheer us all
From the top of Gobbler's Knob
The warming of the sun,
in the flowing of the year
But if you ask my opinion
I think it's all a big snow job
The seasons cycle in their course
Means that spring will soon be here
They say he talks in Groundhogese
On this special day
But if they woke me up like that
See you at noon.
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
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