Five More Winters to Come

You think that it’s behind us now
Old man winter’s done
Don’t let your guard down early
Five winters more to come

Red bud winter will be first
When the apples start to bloom
A few days late in March
Watch it coming soon
Wait another fortnight
There’ll come another chill
Dogwood winter’s on the way
Coming to the hills

You think that it’s behind us now
Old man winter’s done
Don’t let your guard down early
Three winters more to come

Just as you open up the windows
Airing out the house
There comes locust winter
Can’t let the fire go out
Blackberry winter’s sure to come
My grandma used to say
There’ll be another cold spell
Around the tenth of May

You think that it’s behind us now
Old man winter’s done
Don’t let your guard down early
One winter more to come

Don’t put away your sweater
Don’t put away your coat
Cause long john britches winter nights
Will leave awful cold

It’s finally behind us now
Old man winter’s done
Get ready for the spring time
And all that’s yet to come

It’s finally behind us now
Old man winter’s done
Get ready for the spring time
And all that’s yet to come