Winter in America (song)

Winter in America is a 1976 song by Doug Ashdown, written by him and Jimmy Stewart. It was released as a single and on his album Winter in America (Festival Records / Infinity 1976). The song was a Top 20 hit song in Australia and The Netherlands.

The lyrics are set in the United States during December and describe a man whose partner has left him for someone else. He expresses his heartache and sadness, though also hopes she's happier with the other man.^[1]

It was originally titled "Leave Love Enough Alone" and released in 1974, but failed to become a hit.^[1][2] When retitled "Winter in America" in 1976, it became a hit in Australia, reaching #14 in Melbourne and #30 in Sydney. In 1978, it also became a hit in Belgium^[3] and the Netherlands.^[4]

"Winter in America" has been covered by Marco Bakker (1984), Gerard Cox (1987) and René Froger (1988), and in Dutch by The Kik (2014), titled "December".^[5][6] Ashdown's original was also covered in 1994 by the Australian band The Robertson Brothers.