Back in my home town every kid knew
A little piece of magic that we would all do
To call up a snow so they'd cancel school
Never mind what the weatherman said

If you wanted snow it was simple as pie
You put your jammies on inside out that night
Then jump on your Mom and Dad’s bed three times
And brush your teeth with the wrong hand

Well, I tried it once just liked I’d been told
I must’ve tried a little to hard because
When I woke up in the morning, I found I’d caused
The Blizzard of ‘78

When it snowed all night and three days more
Shut down the town and they closed the stores
Had to dig a tunnel to get out our door
In the Blizzard of ‘78

When I looked out I could not believe my luck
Everything in sight was all covered up
All that you could see was the chimney tops
In the Blizzard of ‘78

And the kids stayed home cause the schools were closed
We went sledding ‘til the cows came home
They called me a hero for making it snow
in the Blizzard of ‘78

When it snowed all night and three days more
Shut down the town and they closed the stores
Had to dig a tunnel to get out our door
In the Blizzard of ‘78

My little brother tried to make a snow angel in the ground
But when he laid back he sank 10 feet down
Took us near an hour just to dig him back out
In the Blizzard of ‘78

And the temperature must’ve been forty below
Snowball fights ‘til our fingers froze
Mom made it better with some hot cocoa
In the Blizzard of ‘78

When it snowed all night and three days more
Shut down the town and they closed the stores
Had to dig a tunnel to get out our door
In the Blizzard of ‘78

Well, I saw my friend Ricky in the field out back
Coming through the snow and I had to laugh
All I could see was the tip of his cap
In the Blizzard of ‘78

And we built a snow fort two stories high
Long as a barn and twice as wide
You could fit every kid in the county inside
In the Blizzard of ‘78

Well, my parents laugh and say I exaggerate just a bit
They say it looked bigger to a little kid
But there was twenty feet of snow if there was one inch
In the Blizzard of ‘78

When it snowed all night and three days more
Shut down the town and they closed the stores
Had to dig a tunnel to get out our door
In the Blizzard of ‘78