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The Snows they melt the soonest

from Buckie Prins by Quinie

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"We owe this to a good pioneer collector of North-Eastern song, the soap-boiler and lively Radical agitator Thomas Doubleday, who contributed it to Blackwood's magazine [under the pseudonym of Mr Shufflebotham] as long ago as 1821. He got the melody from a Newcastle street singer. In Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882, repr. 1965) the tune is given as My Love Is Newly Listed." Learned from the repertoire of Anne Briggs.

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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 bet a crown, she's fain to follow't yet
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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 man's anger melt between the night and morn,
And it's surely not a harder thing to tame a man's scorn.

O, never say me farewell here -no farewell I'll receive,
for i will with you my love , till you kiss and take your leave;
But I'll stay here till the moorcock comes, and the marttin takes his wing,
Since the snow aye melts the soonest, lass, when the wind begins to sing.

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from Buckie Prins, released March 11, 2018

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quinie Glasgow, UK

I am based in Glasgow and explore traditional Scots song. Inspired largely by Scots singers including the repertoire of Lizzie Higgins (1929-1993), I bring together a range of sources and sparse accompaniment.

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