When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) [Mono]
When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below
I mushed from Port Barrol through a blizzard of snow
Been out prospecting for two years or so
Pulled into Fairbanks, the city was a boon
So, I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon
(Yes, he took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon)
When I walked through, the door the music was clear
The prettiest voice I had heard in two years
The song she kept singin' would make a man's blood run cold
When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below
(When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below)
It was red-headed Luie that was singin' so sweet
I reached down and took the snowpacks off of my feet
I reached for the girl that was singing the tune
We did the Eskimo hop all around the saloon
(We did the Eskimo hop all around the saloon) mm-mm
Where the caribou crawl and the grizzly bear hug
We did our dance on a Kodiak rug
The song she kept singing would make a man's blood run cold
When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below
(When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below)
I was as innocent as I could be
I didn't know that Luie was big Ed's wife to be
He took out his knife, and he gave it a throw
When it's springtime in Alaska, I'll be six feet below (hmm)
(When it's springtime in Alaska, he's six feet below)
I mushed from Port Barrol through a blizzard of snow
Been out prospecting for two years or so
Pulled into Fairbanks, the city was a boon
So, I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon
(Yes, he took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon)
When I walked through, the door the music was clear
The prettiest voice I had heard in two years
The song she kept singin' would make a man's blood run cold
When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below
(When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below)
It was red-headed Luie that was singin' so sweet
I reached down and took the snowpacks off of my feet
I reached for the girl that was singing the tune
We did the Eskimo hop all around the saloon
(We did the Eskimo hop all around the saloon) mm-mm
Where the caribou crawl and the grizzly bear hug
We did our dance on a Kodiak rug
The song she kept singing would make a man's blood run cold
When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below
(When it's springtime in Alaska, it's 40 below)
I was as innocent as I could be
I didn't know that Luie was big Ed's wife to be
He took out his knife, and he gave it a throw
When it's springtime in Alaska, I'll be six feet below (hmm)
(When it's springtime in Alaska, he's six feet below)
Credits
Writer(s): Tillman Franks
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Songwriter
- Spotlight / Well Alright
- Well Alright
- The Best of Johnny Cash: Sun Records Essentials (feat. The Tennessee Two)
- INTEGRAL JOHNNY CASH 1954 - 1962
- My Way Volume III
- My Way Volume II
- My Way
- Bear's Sonic Journals: Live at The Carousel Ballroom, 4/24/1968
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.