Poets have waxed…poetic, I guess would be the word for it…about the glory of spring ever since loosely-fitting lacy blouses were invented. And songwriters, being a kind of poet if you’re very generous in the definition department, are no exception.
Here are some warm and sunny tunes to get the blood flowing back into your frostbitten extremities.
You know that day in early spring when you look up for the first time and realize “Oh wow it’s 5 and it isn’t dark yet?”
That’s a good day.
Gloria Estefan – “Coming Out Of The Dark”
The days just keep getting longer and longer and you know spring is finally coming.
Fall Out Boy – “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)”
It’s almost like the world is coming to life again or something.
“Bring Me To Life” – Evanescence
Your mood lifts and everything just seems a little brighter.
Indigo Girls – “Closer To Fine”
Then it finally happens – the first gloriously sunny day.
“Here Comes The Sun” – The Beatles
It’s a lot like being reborn. You’re suddenly ALIVE.
Flyleaf – “All Around Me”
March can be a little hit and miss, but April is on the way.
“April Come She Will” – Simon & Garfunkel
It’s nice to be outside, absorbing solar radiation with your various body parts.
John Denver – “Sunshine On My Shoulders”
Enjoying the company of “Mr. Blue Sky” just like the Electric Light Orchestra.
Looking up at the clouds and thinking about love and life and stuff.
“Both Sides Now” – Joni Mitchell
But spring is not only a time of beautiful sunny weather.
Thankfully for those of us with a dark streak.
Garbage – “Only Happy When It Rains”
While I do love rain, it’s definitely in the friend zone for me.
Whereas Gene Kelly and rain should probably get a room.
“Singing In The Rain” – Gene Kelly
This is just an awesome song, and I couldn’t come up with anything else to say about it.
The Who – “Love Reign o’er Me”
Sunny skies plus rain equals flowers.
“Electric Daisy Violin” – Lindsey Stirling
This song irritates me because roses don’t grow from seeds, they grow from cuttings. DUH.
Bette Midler – “The Rose”
If one beloved chanteuse singing a botanical analogy didn’t do it for ya, how about two?
“Evergreen” – Barbra Streisand
You know what they say, chanteuses singing about plant life always come in threes.
Tiny Tim – “Tiptoe Through The Tulips”
It’s not only flowers that bloom in the spring. Sometimes trees like to get in on the act.
21 Pilots – “Trees”
Trees bring birds – that is, when they’re not sitting on the power lines.
“Electric Bird” – Sia
Spring makes some of us get a little flighty ourselves.
Nelly Furtado – “I’m Like A Bird”
Broke: a bird singing a song. Woke: a human singing a song about birds.
“Lullabye of Birdland” – Nikki Yanofsky
Supposedly birds have some kind of a side thing going with bees.
You didn’t hear that from me.
Dean Martin – “The Birds And the Bees”
Bees may sting, but they give us the sweet stuff. Just like love.
“Tupelo Honey” – Van Morrison
Warm weather brings out all sorts of animals.
Peter, Paul, and Mary – “I’m In Love With A Big Blue Frog”
If spring was a person I think it would look exactly like Dolly Parton.
“Love Is Like A Butterfly” – Dolly Parton
Unfortunately not all the animals are cute and cuddly.
At my house springtime also brings out the creepy crawlies.
One creep in particular – and no, I’m not talking about Brad Paisley.
“Ticks” – Brad Paisley.
If things aren’t going well for you in love, sometimes it can seem like spring is downright cruel.
“Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” – Sarah Vaughan
The very best song about spring doesn’t even have any words.
“Appalachian Spring” – Aaron Copeland
Tuesday it was 77 at my house. Yesterday we had four inches of snow, with a full-on blizzard by the time you got 60 miles farther east. Last night’s low was 20, with wind chill down around zero. More snow in the forecast for Friday night. Spring resumes on Monday, with sunny and 70 forecast.Report
That’s the way spring is for us too, enough to give you whiplash a lot of times.
Thanks for reading and commenting!Report
I never thought of April Come She Will as a springtime song.Report
Its a college sophomore version of the Teenage Death Song. And I say that as a longtime fan of S&G.Report
I know, it was a stretch. Thanks for reading!Report
Spring means, among other things, Opening Day (what says “rebirth” more than a brand-new season?), so here’s a song all about old-time ballplayers.
https://youtu.be/nKzobTlF8fMReport
Ah, I should have skipped one of the bug songs for a baseball song. Thanks for sharing! That was cute.Report
I couldn’t find any songs about the pine tree sex and how I have to close up all the windows in the house and stop driving with the windows down and abandon the back deck just when the weather is turning nice until the first hard rains wash all their issue away. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Despite my cynicism, I really do like Spring.Report
Wait are you telling me you’ve never heard “Pollen Makes Me Sneeze Violently So Please Pass The Zyrtec”?Report
Yeah, during “yellow clouds of pollen go blowing by” season I have to take two different 24-hour allergy medications 12 hours apart. Unfortunately, I suffer from the same sort of sneezing “fits” that my grandfather and father had — anywhere from 30 to a hundred dry sneezes in a row. My son seems to have escaped.Report
I have gone onto the nasal sprays and ADORE them. I’ve always had miserable allergies, but then we moved and they became intolerable. I was allergic to Flonase (bitter irony) but I have Rhinocort now and love it.Report
XTC did a whole album devoted to this, Skylarking. Here’s a sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYbGugKvy1oReport
I listened to that album way more than it deserved.Report
There is no limit, AFAIC. This is the best of a really excellent body of work.Report
Jonathan Coulton has a NSFW greeting for spring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ohxxZBBFAReport
I was just coming here to say that Jonathan Coulton has a naughty song just for May.
Glad you posted it, now I don’t have to go to confession… well, for this.Report