Lyr Req: Out of the Snow (Russell Smith)

Subject: Lyr Req: Out of the Snow
From: Vixen
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 08:26 AM

This might be a c&w or bluegrass song...performed by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and/or Amazing Rhythm Aces. I've googled extensively, and I've found sites where I can buy CDs with the track, but no lyrics.

I'm sure there's Mudcats out there who know it! Please post the lyrics if you've got 'em!

Thanks

V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Out of the Snow
From: Vixen
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 09:19 AM

Well--after getting exposed to some video footage I really didn't want to see, I found these...

Go away, go away, you cold north wind
Blowin' my muffler 'round and 'round
Your white powder blows coverin' up the icy ground
I'm a slippin' and a slidin' down this dead end stream
Like a sheep who is lost from the fold
I've been on the land and I've been on the sea
I ain't never seen a night so cold
Suddenly a face at the window
Looks like someone I might a seen before
Thought it musta been my imagination
When suddenly she opened up the door
"And I never expected to see you again
Must a been seven years ago
Now that you're here, why don't you come in
Don't stand outside in the snow"

She sat me down in that old rockin' chair
And she threw on another lump of coal
Said "what's a southern boy like you, doin' here
Where the winter gets so long and cold"
"My history's a short one to tell
I've been travelin' all these seven years
I followed the music and the money around
And that's what I'm doin' up here"
She said "I came up with my husband
He wanted to get away from Tennessee
He's up somewhere in the Rocky Mountains
But it just got to cold up there for me
And I never expected to see you again
Then again, you just never know
You better stay here until the weather clears
It's to cold to be out there in the snow"


Just in case anybody else wants 'em!!!

V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Out of the Snow
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 12:15 PM

The song is called OUT OF THE SNOW. It was written by Russell Smith, a member of The Amazing Rhythm Aces. It was recorded by them and appears on 5 albums:

1976 "Too Stuffed to Jump" 3:39 Valley
1997 "Ride Again" 3:27 Breaker Productions
1999 "Concert Classics, Vol. 3" 3:30 Renaissance
2000 "Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed to Jump" 3:39 Collectors' Choice Music
2001 "Between You & Us" 3:31 Pilot

This information is from Allmusic.com