1816, The Year Without a Summer

In the spring of thirteen-fifteen
 There began an era of unpredictable weather
 It did not lift until eighteen-fifty-one
 You remember eighteen-sixteen as the year without a summer
 June eighteen-sixteen
 A sudden snowstorm blankets all the country side
 So Mary Shelley had to stay inside
 And she wrote Frankenstein
 Oh eighteen-sixteen was the year without a summer
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 Grain couldn't ripen under these conditions, no
 It was brought in-doors in urns and pots
 It'd go from ninety-five degrees to freezing within hours
 A brutal struggle for the people and the starving livestock
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 During the most sever years of this little ice age
 We looked for scapegoats to blame
 Many people tried to blame it all
 On a vast Freemason conspiracy
 Or Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with electricity
 The eruption of the volcano Tambora
 Blanketed the earth with ash
 That was the real cause discovered by some explorer
 Years later, looking back at the past
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 I will give you
 My red color
 To take away your sickly pallor
 For you were very choleric of complexion
 Please beware the mounting sun
 And all dejection
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 Eighteen-sixteen was the year without a summer