Temperatures all over the United States are at a historic low this week, which means schools in the hardest hit region of the Midwest and Northeast are closed for the time being. The Midwest was hit particularly hard by low temperatures with Chicago, Illinois being colder than parts of the Arctic Circle at one point.

When the temperature in Swartz Creek, Michigan reached -2 degrees F on January 29, school officials decided to cancel school for the day. Instead of simply cancelling school in the usual boring way, Superintendent Ben Mainka and high school principal Jim Kitchen decided to have some fun with the announcement!

There has been a growing trend lately of school officials coming up with funny parody songs to announce snow days, but Mainka and Kitchen want the world to know that they are serious men who will not be doing that.

“Superintendents and other administrators are coming up with ridiculous songs and they’re playing music and putting sunglasses on and making absolute fools of themselves trying to cancel school for a snow day,” said Mainka, with Kitchen adding, “We are not going to humiliate ourselves to announce a snow day.”

Seemingly serious with their announcement until suddenly, the two men put on their sunglasses and begin to sing. Surprisingly, they’re both really good and harmonized well together!

The duo proceeded to sing a hilarious parody of the song “Hallelujah” to announce the snow day!

“It goes like this, when winter hits
The buses can’t get out of it
It’s cold and it’s a snowy winter morning
It’s a snow day, a winter cold day
Stay home and just play
It’s a great family day.”

Kitchen finished the song by trying to bribe Mainka with cookies to get one more day off before letting the students know how much they miss them on snow days.

We hope school officials and students alike enjoyed their day off but most importantly, stay safe everyone!