Snowtime Lyrics - Before This World - James Taylor

Oleana, via Del Norte, O Canada 

It was snowtime, it was showtime, it was no time 

To be lost in downtown Toronto 

It was wintertime, 'round dinnertime 

I'm beginning to see that the sunshine just doesn't want to 

From a side street come a backbeat 

Pulling on me like the moon pullin' on the tide 

Ay caramba, one-note samba, la la la la bamba 

Lighting me up inside 

They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum 

The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember 

Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar 

And every note was the antidote to December 

My first impression, some kind of procession 

Pulling on a long line of fancy dancers 

A band stuck up on a flatbed truck 

They were raising a ruckus swinging for the fences 

Exiled Mexican textile working 

Punching two clocks, sending two paychecks home boys 

Hard working law 'biding bus riding people 

Celebration on wheels destination unknown 

They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum 

The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember 

Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar 

And every note was the antidote to December 

Rio Grande 

Oleana 

Via Del Norte 

Oh Canada 

There was a lifeline south in the song coming from her mouth 

It swallowed me up and I followed it on downtown 

In the light of dawn the message that life goes on 

For the frozen man an invitation to live again 

They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum 

The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember 

Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar 

And every note was the antidote to December 

They were shakin' it loose with the juice from the mambo man 

Long lanky Yankee boy, Buckwheat and Spanky my my 

Santiago de Cuba 

Belo Horizonte 

Cartagena 

Guaguancó Canada 

Guaguancó Canada