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Thread #49495   Message #748106
Posted By: masato sakurai
14-Jul-02 - 11:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Oh the Wind and Rain
Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THAT I WAS AND A LITTLE TINY BOY
Art, thanks for the reminder. I've just found my CD: Alfred Deller, The Three Ravens: Elizabethan Folk & Minstrel Songs (Vanguard Classics OVC 8104), where the title is THE WIND AND THE RAIN. The lyrics are from Twelfth Night (Act V. Scene 1), which has a full version of the song:

Clo. When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gates,
For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came, alas! to wive,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came unto my beds,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
For the rain it raineth every day.

A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.

~Masato