Nanci Griffith - Shaking Out The Snow lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Snowing - through Dakota I once drove With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into the winter Of December in the cold Off to see Mount Rushmore staring through the snow And to gamble with the boys of Deadwood As we drove Chorus Snowing - I am shaking out the snow Oh, the cold that is within my heart I'm gonna shake out all that snow Riding years ago Through those South Dakota roads When the laughter could thaw Enderby And shake me from the snow Like a hurricane through Florida I'll shake out all this snow Snowing - one Christmas morn' when I was four My brother told me it was warm So a swimsuit I adorned Then he sent me to the weather And behind me locked the doors A four year old in a swim suit and brand new plastic skates Out into the snow to catch this cold I cannot shake Chorus Snowing - yeah, it snows in Tennessee The place where I now make my life Is still snowing down on me I'd prefer Antarctica Perhaps the land of Enderby Where the weather is my heart and I'm closer to the sea Since I cannot ever seem to shake the snow Out of me Chorus And all across the states you see the tractors and the plows Clearing out the roads And the bridges north and south Something they did learn And I just don't seem to know How to clear a pa**age And shake out all the snow