Joni Mitchell
Intro To Urge For Going (Live at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia, PA, 11/1966)
I come from a place in Canada called Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which, to some people sounds like a disease. Up there we joke about Kalamazoo, Michigan. When I found out that that place really does exist, I was amazed. But erm, the winters in Saskatchewan are very cool, the seasons are cool, and the temperature changes as much as 150 degrees in a year, which is pretty radical. And, when winter comes and, Decembеr comes, and January is threatening to comе, with temperatures dropping to 50 below zero, the people begin to act very peculiarly, and they say "Hey, why can't I go some place else for the winter?" And some of them who have enough money, the wealthy farmers actually do go down to some place like Miami or Bermuda, the Bahamas, places like that, just to escape it. But the rest of the people have to sit it out, with the blizzards and the blusters, and, this is how they feel I think...