(CHILL CHORDS)
GK: The nights get longer, the days colder (BLIZZARD) on the frozen tundra (WOLF HOWL) and the hardy Vikings who inhabit the North (SWEDISH WAR CRY) and defend America against the incidious Canadians (SWEDISH) start to feel the torpor of winter.
TR (MINNESOTA): Boy I feel sleepy. Maybe I'll lie down in that snowbank and take a snooze.
All across the north, life begins to slow down as winter moves in. And the residents start putting on layers of sweaters (STRAINING)
SS (MINN): How many sweaters you got on there anyways?
TR (MINN): I donno. Lost count.
SS (MINN): I'd say twenty or so.
TR (MINN): Could be. Pretnear anyway.
GK: All over Minnesota they're firing up their Space Heaters, (SFX) learning how to dress for work without getting out of bed (RUSTLE OF BEDCLOTHES) and in an emergency, learning how to kill a bear (GUNSHOT) and cut it open (SFX) and crawl into its chest cavity (SFX) until help arrives (FOOTSTEPS IN SNOW)
TR (MINN): What you doin inside that dead bear?
TK: Trying to keep warm.
TR (MINN): Oh. Ya get lost in that blizzard then?
TK: Yeah. She was something alright.
TR (MINN): You can say that again.
TK: Lucky for me the bear come along.
TR (MINN): Did you know you were right in the middle of downtown Duluth?
TK: Well, isn't that something. Downtown, huh?
TR (MINN): Yep. Downtown.
TK: Huh.
GK: Winter is an ordeal here on the frozen tundra, but not in St. Paul--no, because lively charming St. Paul is the only city in America with a municipal coffee supply--coffee is brought upriver by barge (BOAT HORN) and loaded into the city coffee plant (SFX) where it's roasted in ovens (SFX) and ground in a hundred-foot-tall coffee mill (SFX) and brewed ten-thousand-gallons at a time (SFX) and pumped into a giant coffee tower (SFX) so that all over the city, when you need coffee, it's there, coming out of the tap (SFX).
TR: Ahhhhh. Good old St. Paul coffee. (SIPS)
GK: Coffee--it's the aromatic drink from tropical rainforests that keeps northern people dancing on their toes--(LATIN CRIES, MARACAS) yes, coffee!!! (MORE CRIES) It's joyful! Provocative! A stimulant! (WHOOPEE)
TR (MINN): Boy, I been draggin all day. I don't know what's wrong.
SS: You're just down a few quarts. (MUSIC BUILD STARTS)
GK: Yes, if you're feeling down about living here on the northern tundra in your mud hut with your animals (SFX), maybe you should move to St. Paul--
TR: It's where coffee comes out of the tap.
GK:
Smells so lovely when you pour it,
You will want to drink a quar't
Of coffee.
It's delicious all alone, it's
Also good with doughnuts.
Black coffee.
Coffee stimulates your urges,
It is served in Lutheran churches,
Keeps the Swedes and Germans
Awake through the sermons
Have a pot of it today,
I'm sure you'll say it's awfully good coffee.
(BIG BUTTON)