Trivial stuff - All about winter

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 It is winter in many parts of the world. For some areas, that means snow. Maybe even lots of snow. If you do not have to drive in it or remove it, snow can be very beautiful. When snow covers everything around you, the world lookds like a "winter wonderland(仙境)". That is the name of a very popular song about winter. Richard Smith and Felix Bernard wrote the song way back in nineteen thirty-four. There are hundreds of recordings of this happy song. Here is a lovely version by James Taylor.

But winter is not always such a beautiful and happy time. The day is shorter and darker. The sun rarely shines. The leaves on the trees are brown and have fallen to the ground. The flowers are mostly gone. it's not surprising that some people are sad in winter, and some people dream about somewhere else where it is warm and pretty - like the state of California. The Mamas and Papas recorded this famous song, "California Dreamin" in nineteen sixty-five.

During the nineteen sixties, many other famous rock groups released songs about winter. Here is a poetic song by Simon and Garfunkel called "A Hazy(有薄雾的 不清楚的) Shade (n.阴影 vt.遮蔽)of winter". They sing about life and

hope and possibilities.

In nineteen sixty-eight, the group Blood,Sweat and Tears recorded this gentle,sad song about winter. They sing about a lost love and forgotten memories in "Sometimes in winter".

In the early nineteen nineties, Tori Amos wrote and recorded this beautiful song called ''Winter". She sings about when she was a child.