Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

This song is about the happiness that the season promises, including going to a "county fair in the country sun."

VOA: special.2009.06.22

The song is about leaving the big city for the countryside, going home again after a long time away.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

When Hank sang a sad song, those who listened knew it was about something that had happened to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Many people knew that when Hank sang this song, "Cold Cold Heart", he was singing about his wife and their problems.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Here is the song "I Was a Bird" in which she dreams about flying high in the sky.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

The song was about injustice and oppression of black people in the southern part of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

"September Song" by Kurt Weill is one of the most well known, and saddest,songs about the season.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

One of the best-liked songs in Britain then was a song about the better life in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

His name is Woody Guthrie. He is singing a song about men who look for work as they travel from town to town.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

In the song "Bust Your Windows" she sings about a lover who has treated her badly.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

this time with Lorenz Hart. Ella Fitzgerald sings this song about feeling lonely during this season.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song Mood Indigo about the deep blue color,indigo.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded another sad and lovely song about winter in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2011.01.03

In 1968, the group Blood, Sweat and Tears recorded this gentle, sad song about winter.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

Chesley Sullenberger "The Ballad of Casey Jones" is a folk song about a train engineer who saved the lives of his passengers in a wreck.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

She says the song expresses a sense of wonder about the times we live in.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

The song is about driving by yourself at night into the unknown and feeling free.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

The song is about what he had hated most about being in the army.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

He tells about his life in "Bed-Stuy" in the song "Life in Marvelous Times."

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Often,they sang about the long ride to the cattle markets where the cows were sold for beef, as in this song called, "Git Along Little Dogie."

VOA: special.2010.03.25

It is an angry song about a woman who was once rich and successful.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded another sad and lovely song about winter in 1975.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

They also recorded a song about fallen leaves, darker days and lost love.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

This song by K.D.Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

It is a happy song about being open to love and life's possibilities.

VOA: special.2010.01.29