The Ballad of Saint Valenhole - Groundhog Day song

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This is a holiday album from a not-too-distant alternate universe where Groundhog Day thrives as an important neighborhood festival. It’s a dream about changing to a new season. It’s a dream of a world where we get together with our neighbors for festivals. That world where we have the time, energy, social connection, and hospitality of spirit we want to have.
Featuring text and music by (or adapted from):
Edwin Everhart, Robert Herrick, Peter Meinke, Moondog, Thomas Ravenscroft (?), Becky Reardon, Shirley S. Stevens, Philip Terman, Olivia Devorah Tucker, and Chandler York.
The Ballad of Saint Valenhole
Olivia Devorah Tucker 2023.
Lyrics:
Saint Valenhole is a lover of rodents,
The groundhog’s shadow, and the future it portends
The church didn’t like what the groundhogs foretold him
The church filled his holes with his friends the rodents
Valenhole’s life was gone in a moment
Along came a winter, a winter so frozen
The pipes’re so cold, so cold they’re explodin’
Valenhole’s lover, his name was Bowden
Bowden the widow, he cared for the rodents
He went to the church - said “Pope, you are so dense”
St Valenhole’s spirit appeared in the grove then
Said, “Listen my friends, to my friends the rodents”
Groundhogs took a look, no shadows below them
Spring would come early, the omen so potent
Pope fell to his knees, his knees in atonement
Valenhole’s sainthood, he gave that bestowment
Valenhole is patron of all things eroded
Of getting your hole filled, and our friends the rodents

[@twinkie_doodle]

One of my favorites!!! Beautifully written Olivia!! SO fun to sing!!