Shaking Out The Snow Lyrics - Nanci Griffith

Snowing through South 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 

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 the 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 

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 the 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 yeah, it snows in Tennessee 

The place where I now make my life 

Is still snowin' 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 

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 the 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 

All across the states you see 

The tractors and the plows 

Clearin' 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 passage 

And shake out all the snow