Because of high temperatures and chinooks
Medicine Hat is menaced with an ice famine.

They bask in the sunshine and purr like a cat,

The fortunate people of Medicine Hat.

Its climate is balmy in spite of the lat.;

You have a wrong notion of Medicine Hat.

At Christmas they sit on their porches and chat,

For it never gets chilly in Medicine Hat.

The Medicine Hatters all spoil for a spat

With any defamer of Medicine Hat;

They’re ready and anxious to go to the mat