SnowTime

[Verse 1]

Oleana, via Del Norte, O Canada

It was snowtime, it was showtime, it was no time

To be lost in downtown Toronto

It was wintertime, ‘round dinnertime

I’m beginning to see that the sunshine just doesn’t want to

From a side street come a backbeat

Pulling on me like the moon pullin’ on the tide

Ay caramba, one-note samba, la la la la bamba

Lighting me up inside

[Chorus]

They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum

The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember

Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar

And every note was the antidote to December

[Verse 2]

My first impression, some kind of procession

Pulling on a long line of fancy dancers

A band stuck up on a flatbed truck

They were raising a ruckus swinging for the fences

Exiled Mexican textile working

Punching two clocks, sending two paychecks home boys

Hard working law ‘biding bus riding people

Celebration on wheels destination unknown

[Chorus]

They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum

The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember

Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar

And every note was the antidote to December

[Verse 3]

Rio Grande

Oleana

Via Del Norte

Oh Canada

There was a lifeline south in the song coming from her mouth

It swallowed me up and I followed it on downtown

In the light of dawn the message that life goes on

For the frozen man an invitation to live again

[Chorus]

They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum

The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember

Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar

And every note was the antidote to December

[Verse 4]

They were shakin’ it loose with the juice from the mambo man

Long lanky Yankee boy, Buckwheat and Spanky my my

Santiago de Cuba

Belo Horizonte

Cartagena

Guaguancó Canada

Guaguancó Canada