You spend all summer long Chopping firewood Then stack it high and stack some more You'd cut more if you could Cause the wintertime it snows It snows and snows again And when it ain't snowing That mountain's cold as sin Spring brings joy to a hard man's heart Puts a smile underneath that grizzled beard Warms the soul like a bowl of Wapiti stew Makes him skip like a yearlin' deer The gray all fades to blue And the brown turns to green The ice melts away And there's thunder in the stream The coyotes stop yipping And the antlers all have shed And you don't see your breath When you're lying there in bed Spring brings joy to a hard man's heart Puts a smile underneath that grizzled beard Warms the soul like a bowl of Wapiti stew Makes him skip like a yearlin' deer Spring brings joy to a hard man's heart Puts a smile underneath that grizzled beard Warms the soul like a bowl of Wapiti stew Makes him skip like a yearlin' deer