Sun Kil Moon - Snowbound lyrics

Aunt Mimi, I miss you like no other
When we were young you were
Like our second mother
The days in Awalt High
Stranded at your house for weeks at a time
Snowbound
Us kids had so much fun at your house
Heated by a big black potbelly stove
I remember the orange embers glowing
I remember the TV at night showing
Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley
Oh, that was our big night
Pepperoni pizza and golden crisp potato chips
And drinking root beer
Oh, those young prepubescent years
Oh, thosе young prepubescent yеars

Nothing to call my own
Except what was given to me, I supposed
Didn't have two nickels to scratch together
But me and my cousins
We had so much fun together
Climbing apple trees and playing
Hide and seek and the Easter egg hunts
There were so many hiding places
On those so many acres
Rusty cars that went on for days
And the barn that was stacked full of hay
And the church next door with
The yard full of graves

And I remember my sister and Jenny playing
Under the tree next to the house
You'd sing "Playmate
Oh won't you play with me
Under my apple tree"
Another line about a cellar door
"and we'll be jolly friends forevermore
More more more more more more"

And you guys would do this
Strategic can clapping thing
To each other's hands while you sang it
I remember us watching Jenny and Jimmy
Ice-skating on the frozen pond
We could never coordinate our legs right
We never figured out how to skate

Aunt Mimi, you were often on your own
Your husband out trucking
You could make something outta nothing
You always made sure we were fed
You used real butter, that tasted so good
My mom used margarine
I can still smell the frog
Legs sizzling in your
Big black iron skillet and a
Bluegill and a bass
That we caught from the pond
You can make anything taste delicious
Like a magician waving a magic wand

I can still smell your
White Shoulders perfume
And your expression that you always used
How you'd say, "Oh my God, Mark!"
Even later in life when I'd
Surprise you in your room
There at the nursing home in Brewster

So glad I got to get you
On the phone on Thursday
That I got a chance to tell
You how much I loved you
To tell you how much you meant to me
And I gotta thank you for taking care of us
And how I'd come by and knock on your
Window next time I was in Ohio
Damn, I can't believe you died there
A couple days later alone
Nobody allowed in to see you due to COVID
But we were all there in spirit
And I know you know it
I've been mourning your loss
The last two days
Especially this one, 'cause outside
It's dreary and cold and pouring rain
Laying in bed
Thinking of my young summer and winter days
Remember your smile as bright
As a big sunflower
Remembering how well you took care
Of your son and daughters
Remembering John Denver's Greatest Hit's on
Display by the little turntable
Remembering your kitchen and your
Giant oak table now the sun glowed mellow
Yellow light in the summer
Where the window was
Into living room of that low-ceiling house
With all that land and acreage in your house
I never once saw miles

It's amazing how nice you kept the place
Your home was our refuge
Your home was our gathering place
I don't know what to say at this point really
Except to say how much I miss you Aunt Mimi
Your caring and loving and nurturing ways
Are not lost on me
You and your family have given me
Some of my nicest young memories