Hey Mimi"Come look at this nasty stuff
 Mother Nature sure called your bluff.
Yesterday you said you wanted to see snow
 But you didn't mention temperature of ten below.
You forgot how that North wind can blow
 And move those drifts to and fro.

 And Mimi I just heard on the radio
The schools are closed;So the kids can't go.
 Roads are so bad they had to cancel the school bus So I guess the kids will stay home with us.
Dear Mimi"Why do you storm and cuss?
Why are you putting up such a fuss?

You didn't know Midwestern winters were so bad ?
Why Mimi"When I was just a little tad.
The snow drifts would pile up so high
You had to stand on a ladder to see the sky.
Around here cabin fever will make you cry
And for old England you will pine and sigh.

       Already there's twenty inches on the ground
Before it's over,another eight or ten will be found.
Then the wind will blow and it will drift.
   And all the skiers will head for the lift.
     I guess to a skier"Snow is Gods gift.
       But he dont have to shovel it.

 Mimi dear"This snow has already buried everything
We just might be stuck here till spring.
 My dear a day off from work is such a treat
Just too sit here and revel in the heat.
What do you mean there's nothing to eat?
But if I go outside I might freeze my feet.

OK Mimi" It's your turn to stand and laugh
While I go out and shovel a path.
 GOD"How I hate this nasty snow
To shovel that stuff when it's ten below.
Mimi you wouldn't like it here I know.
 Maybe Florida is where we ought to go.
 Elmer Ake

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