Living in rural New Hampshire, late Winter and early Spring are marked by muddy roads, late snow storms and maple sugaring! If you have never been to a sugar shack during sugaring season, make it a point to do so. The smoke, the smells, the sugar on snow, and, of course, the syrup! Real, 100% Maple Syrup--there is nothing like it in the world.
M-M-M Maple Syrup
M-M-M Maple syrup If I’m feeling sad just one thing can help me cheer up
M-M-M Maple syrup My table’s incomplete without that sticky treat from the trees
In Spring we go out in the woods with our taps and our pails
We find our favorite trees we know will never fail
We hang the pails, drive the taps then go home and wait for the sap to run
Pretty soon the buckets they are all completely filled
We drag ‘em home, light a fire and throw them on the grill
We cook it down in big wide pans It’s lots of work but, man, its lots of fun
M-M-M Maple syrup If I’m feeling sad just one thing can help me cheer up
M-M-M Maple syrup My table’s incomplete without that sticky treat from the trees
There’s pancakes and there’s waffles The first things that come to mind
But think a little harder and who knows what you might find
Breakfast lunch and dinner Maple syrup can be part of every meal
There’s succotash, potato hash and artichokes-a-hearted
Black-eyed-peas and porridge, Please, I’m just getting started
Cornbread, shortbread, flatbread too, but if I were you, I would skip the veal
Carrots Spinach Cakes and Pies Noodles of most any size
Apples Peaches Plums and Pears A little here and a little there
Black Beans Red Beans Pink Beans too Make a Maple three-bean stew
In my tea and in my coffee Maple Syrup in my toffee
Sauces, rouxs and marinades Cook it up and make a glaze
Maple Peppers red and yella for the gals and for the fellas
Maple soups and Maple shakes and Maple ponds and Maple lakes
Maple this and Maple that Maple syrup is where it’s at!
M-M-M Maple syrup If it’s imitation than you know I’m gonna tear up
M-M-M Maple syrup My table’s incomplete without that sticky treat hey-hey-hey-
M-M-M Maple syrup If I’m feeling sad just one thing can help me cheer up
M-M-M Maple syrup My table’s incomplete without that sticky treat from the trees
GUITAR NOTES:
Capo 2
Chorous: G/D/G/A G/D/G/A
Verse: D/D/G/G A/G/D
