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Thu February 9, 2012
Winter Songs

Winter Songs: Paul Simon, The Bard Of Bad Weather

Credit Mark Seliger
Paul Simon.

Among the hundreds of songs that remind NPR listeners of winter, one songwriter's name keeps coming up: Paul Simon, who's practically the bard of bad weather. From "Kodachrome" to "Slip Slidin' Away," almost a dozen of the New York musician's tunes were named when we asked for songs that evoke the winter season. Here are just a few of your stories.

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Transcript

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER")(Singing) Look around, leaves are brown and the sky is a hazy shade of winter.) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.

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