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The Snow It Melts the Soonest - English Song

An English folk song with a beautiful melody, very typologically representative of much of the music of Great-Britain with Dorian and pentatonic modal structures. Not too much to say here: a basic acoustic guitar chord progression, and the hammered dulcimer, an archaic and nowadays less widely used but still real part of the British tradition, provides the melody. The melody has roots in the 1800's, possibly dating back to the late 1700's. Lyrics in English: O, the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing; And the corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are setting in; And when a woman tells me that my face she'll soon forget, Before we part, I wad a crown, she's fain to follow't yet. The snow it melts the soonest when the wind begins to sing; And the swallow skims without a thought as long as it is spring; But when spring goes, and winter blows, my lass, an ye'll be fain, For all your pride, to follow me, were't cross the stormy main. O, the snow it melts the soonest when the wind begins to sing; The bee that flew when summer shined, in winter cannot sting; I've seen a woman's anger melt between the night and morn, And it's surely not a harder thing to tame a woman's scorn. O, never say me farewell here -no farewell I'll receive, For you shall set me to the stile, and kiss and take your leave; But I'll stay here till the woodcock comes, and the martlet takes his wing, Since the snow aye melts the soonest, lass, when the wind begins to sing.