It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Springtime

 [to the tune of It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas]

It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime
When you go outside!
There’s a robin up on the fence,
Whistling once again,
With bright plumage he doesn’t want to hide!

It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime.
Soon the flowers will bloom!
And the things that will eat their leaves
Are caterpillars that will be
Preparing to cocoon!

All the snow melts away,
And it’s warmer each day,
With an earlier, earlier dawn.
There are buds on the trees,
And sometimes it still freezes,
But less as time goes on.
And you don’t need
To wear a coat
When you’re out on the lawn!

It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime.
Allergies get bad
From the pollen that’s in the air,
Blowing round everywhere.
If you don’t have to deal with that,
Be glad!

It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime.
Bring on the mud and rain!
It’ll give way to summer soon,
Then to autumn and winter too,
Until it’s spring again – !

Oh, it’s springtime …
Once …
Again … 

[originally composed in 1951 by Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson; lyric adaptation by Maryssa Rietschlin in 2023]