The Snows (Night Ride 1988) chords by Bert Jansch, Rod Clements
Verse 1
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That's what it
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says on the contract.
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Countin' and Tennille and muskrat love.
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And now it's Bert Jansch
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and Rod Clements
with a song for the summer
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called The Snows.
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Eh?
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The snows they melt, the sun asks
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when the wind's beginning to sing.
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And the corn it ripens fastest
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When the frost is settlin' in
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And when the woman tells me that
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I face she'll soon forget
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Before we bottle with jay o 'clock
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She's fain to follow it yet
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For the snows they melt the soonest
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When the winds begin to sing
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And a swallow flies without a thought,
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as long as it is free
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But when spring goes
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and the winter blows,
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my love, she'll be fain
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For all her prey to follow me,
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thou 'rt lost, the stormy May
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For the snows that melt
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will soon hasten
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when the winds begin to sing
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And be that flu when summer's shone
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and winter cannot sting
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I've seen a woman's anger melt
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between the nicked and marved
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It's surely not a harder thing
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to melt a woman's scar
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Don't you bid me farewell,
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no farewell I say
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For you must fly with me, my lass,
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Then kiss and take your leave
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And I'll wait here till the woodcock calls
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And the marten takes the wane
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For the snows, they melt as soon as
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When the winds begin to sing
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Oh, the snows that melt at soonest
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When the winds begin to sing
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And the corn it ripens fastest
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When the frost is settling in
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And when the woman tells me that
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My face she'll soon forget
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Before we part or we take on
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She's famed to follow it, yeah
The Snows (Night Ride 1988)
Bert Jansch, Rod Clements
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