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