Urge For Going Lyrics - Joni Mitchell

I awoke today and found the frost 

perched on the town 

It hovered in a frozen sky, then it 

gobbled summer down 

When the sun turns traitor cold and all 

the trees are shivering in a naked row 

I get the urge for going 

But I never seem to go 

I get the urge for going 

When the meadow grass is turning brown 

Summertime is falling down and winter 

is closing in 

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I had me a man in summertime 

He had summer-colored skin 

And not another girl in town 

My darling's heart could win 

But when the leaves fell on the ground 

Boy winds came around, pushed them face 

down in the snow 

He got the urge for going 

And I had to let him go 

He got the urge for going 

When the meadow grass was turning brown 

Summertime was falling down and winter 

was closing in 

Now the warriors of winter they gave a 

cold triumphant shout 

And all that stays is dying and all that 

lives is camping out 

See the geese in chevron flight flapping 

and racing on before the snow 

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They got the urge for going 

And they got the wings so they can go 

They get the urge for going 

When the meadow grass is turning brown 

Summertime is falling down and winter 

is closing in 

Apply the fire with kindling now 

I'll pull the blankets up to my chin 

I"ll lock the vagrant winter out and 

I'll fold my wandering in 

I'd like to call back summertime 

Have her stay for just another 

month or so 

But she's got the urge for gong 

So I guess she'll have to go 

She gets the urge for going 

When the meadow grass is turning brown 

All her empire's falling down 

And winter's closing in 

And I get the urge for going 

When the meadow grass is turning brown 

And summertime is falling down