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Song of the Huts
Presented by Fred Stott, Ned Claflin and Jen Granducci
At Winter Reunion January 22, 2000
Ist Verse
As a kid I looked up
Mostly men standing round
With their hob-nailed boots
Punching printmarks in the ground
And I stood there awful shy
Mumbling small talk 'bout the sky
But I dreamed I'd work up there
Some day
Chorus
Some day
Some future day
Oh I dreamed I'd climb up there
Some future day
Then the weather turned colder
And I turned one year older
Still I dreamed I'd climb up there
Some day
2nd Verse
You gotta start with Madison
The oldest of them all
And it paved the way for Carter
Lakes and Zealand Fall
Joe Dodge dreamed a pathway
Each hut a day away
Linking Lonesome Greenleaf Galehead
And now they'll stay that way
Chant
Carter Madison Lakes and Mizpah
Zealand Galehead Greenleaf Lonesome
3rd verse
One windy day on Adams
With gray clouds cudding by
We searched for Caggiano
And hoped he would not die
But the wind and sleet out-gunned us
The weather took our man
And once again we witnessed
You cannot fool the land
4th Verse
With the goods down in the valley
And the hut up near the top
It's only backboard packing
That brings a freshened crop
So it's eighty pounds of goodies
And another ten of sweat
That makes our odd concoctions
The best meals ever et
5th Verse
The croos were made of men
>From Dartmouth and the like
Till women yelled in protest
"You know we too can hike"
Now Hutmen-F will show you
Packing loads both high and wide
Baking bread and snapping crappers
They're now the system's pride
Final verse
What gives a hut its magic
For ages young and old?
It's the place that warms the spirit
When the outside's feeling cold
It's sunsets gone forever
And sunsets yet to be
It's stones and storm and loneness
They're all a part of me
Chorus
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