Need Winter Song Titles, please!

Subject: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 09:46 AM

Hi there. I hope the regulars don't mind a request from a relative newbie. I've actually hung around here for years, but I don't post much.

Anyway, in my other life, I'm the author of a fantasy series about a pair of Folk musicians who also practice magic. One of the conceits of the series is that every book shares its title with a trad song (The Unquiet Grave, A Maid in Bedlam, etc). I'm working on the fifth book, and I'm totally stuck on a title.

It takes place between the Winter Solstice and the First of January, and it deals with unnaturally bad weather that has a mystical component. So, I'm looking for songs about Winter, Snow, Winter Hardship, etc.

Please, please please help. I'd appreciate any suggestions. All I can think of is "The Month of January," which won't work because it isn't January, and "The Snows they Melt..." which won't work because the snow isn't melting at all.

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 10:16 AM

Bleak Midwinter?
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 10:16 AM

Visit JC's abc tune finder or The Session.org and do searches on likely words. Then make sure the titles you consider are public domain.

Must it be a song? How about Shakespeare's "When Icicles Hang by the Wall?"

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 10:28 AM

GUEST - is this you?
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wysewomon
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,sewerrat
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:03 AM

Winter Grace
Winter is iccummin in

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:17 AM

This song is sort of more about Autumn going into Winter... but a great song.

Marigold-Harvest Home.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:37 AM

Tunes:

Midwinter Waltz
The Frost is All Over
Cold Frosty Morning
When The Cold Winter Nights Were Frozen (actually that's a song but usually known under another name)
The Snowy Path

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Bert
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:39 AM

Hot Buttered Rum
Song for a Winter's Night

And there's one of mine 'Stars and Snowflakes' Here

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,MickG
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:49 AM

Ee by gum but it's cold.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,petecockermouth
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:59 AM

'winter song' by alan hull - look for it on you tube

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 12:05 PM

Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.

Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho! the holly! This life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.

Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.
As You Like It,2.7.181-201)



Winter Song

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Love's Labour's Lost,5.2.932-39

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

There are tunes for both....Mr. S used over a hundred songs in his plays.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 12:39 PM

From the DT

Up In The Morning Early - (Robert Burns)
mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7512

Winter: A Dirge - (Robert Burns)
mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7940

Winds Bliew Across The Wild Moor
mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7929

Where, Braving Angry Winter's Storms - (Robert Burns)
mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7820

Good King Winclaus
mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2350

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

What playful stuff...and your prices quite right.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: open mike
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 01:31 PM

Hey Ho, Nobody Home
Wassail songs...
st.stephen's day,
wren songs

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 02:26 PM

Wren songs fit the exact time of year.
Hunting the Wren has the ring of a title.
Another song sung at Christmas (the 12 days run into the New Year) is Hail Smiling Morn.
Quack!
GtD

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Tiger
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 02:58 PM

A favorite of mine is "Turning Toward the Morning" by Gordon Bok.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:02 PM

'January Man.' Although the song is titled that, it is about the months of the year.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:05 PM

Thank you all so much! This is incredibly helpful.

Geoff, yes, that's me.

I'm hoping I won't be "GUEST" much longer. Trying to get my membership renewed.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:10 PM

If you have membership problems contact Joe Offer [e-mail] but in the interim, if you already have a mudcat name, use it in your "guest" postings so people can recognise who is posting.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,Treacle Bolly
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:12 PM

Winter Wine by Caravan

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:15 PM

I hate to admit it, but it's been so long since I posted here that I can't remember my name...

I LOVE that bit from As You Like It, by the way. I'm liking "The Bitter Sky." Kind of out of the usual line, but it has a great ring.

I love "Hunting the Wren" as a book title, too. But I think that may have to be for later.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Genie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:16 PM

Joni Mitchell's "Urge For Going" is about summer leaving and winter coming in.

"Button Up Your Overcoat (when the wind is free)"

"Baby, It's Cold Outside"

"Dashing Through The Snow"

"Until The Dark Time Ends" (which is also the title of the seasonal CD in the Mudcat "This Is Us" series

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Stanron
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:16 PM

(Now is the time for) Fire and wine.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:18 PM

Excelsior.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:28 PM

Or its working-class version, 'Uppards,' John

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Genie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:30 PM

From the DT, some songs that relate to winter and/or refer to winter in the title:

The Frozen Logger
Winter Is Icumen In        

0.8660 - ALL HAIL TO THE DAYS
0.8510 - EQUINOX
0.8508 - WINTER AND I
0.8351 - WINTERTIME IN WASHINGTON
0.8169 - FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
0.8169 - THE FATAL SNOWSTORM
0.8164 - WINTERGRACE
0.8164 - WINTER: A DIRGE
0.8164 - A-ROVING ON A WINTER'S NIGHT
0.7967 - BIRCHES
0.7967 - WINDS BLEW ACROSS THE WILD MOOR (MARY DIED AT HER FATHER'S DOOR)
0.7967 - GOOD KING WENCESLAS
0.7961 - THE WINTER SHANTY
0.7961 - WHERE, BRAVING ANGRY WINTER'S STORMS
0.7961 - WHEN IT'S WINTER IN THE KOOTENAYS
0.7961 - THE WINTER OF SEVENTY-THREE
0.7961 - THE STORMY SCENES OF WINTER
0.7961 - ON A COLD WINTER'S NIGHT
0.7961 - LAST WINTER WAS A HARD ONE
0.7961 - COLD WINTER SHADOW
0.7961 - CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER
0.7742 - WESTRON WYND (2)
0.7742 - TURNING TOWARD THE MORNING
0.7742 - THE SEASONS
0.7742 - THE ROSE
0.7742 - STORMALONG
0.7742 - SOUTH WIND
0.7742 - NOVEMBER RAIN
0.7742 - MONTH OF JANUARY
0.7742 - MAPLE SYRUP SONG
0.7742 - FORTY BELOW
0.7742 - FOLKSONG GIG FROM HELL (We Only Do it for the Money)
0.7742 - FALLING LEAF
0.7742 - DONE LAID AROUND
0.7742 - DAY RETURNS
0.7742 - COLD AND RAW (The Farmers Daughter)

There's also 'The Frozen Logger"

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Genie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:44 PM

(That last line was from the Department Of Redundancy Department.)


Some other titles from the DT:
0.7961 - THE CHARITY SEED (NEVER DIED IN WINTER YET)
0.7961 - BLOW, BLOW THOU WINTER WIND
0.7967 - MORE WOOD

Other titles that may fit your theme (even if the whole song doesn't):
The Chill Eastern Winds
Put Another Log On The Fire
Winter Wonderland
Let It Snow!
Autumn Leaves


And if a song lyric (first line) could do even if it's not the song title, how about Bill Staines's opening line of "River?"

"(I was) Born In The Path Of The Winter Wind"

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: ClaireBear
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 04:15 PM

"The Sheep Are Neath the Snow"

Click here for a link to the track on Amazon, as sung by Magpie Lane)

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Genie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 05:28 PM

More winter-related song titles from the Forum. (If you type "winter" in the Forum search box and set it for "All" (not just a year or two), you'll find these and other titles. Try it with other key words such as "cold" or "frozen" or "frosty," etc., to find more.)


When the Snows of Winter Fall (Graeme Miles)
Blackberry Winter
Wintertime Lady
Song for a Winter's Night (Lightfoot)
Gloomy Winter's Now Awa (Dougie MacLean)
Weary Winter (John Conolly)
Winter's Own (from Findask)
Cold Winter Shadow (Irish Rovers)
Rhosyn Wyn (Winterrose)
Lonely Man of Winter (Sufjan Stevens)
Wintergrace (Jean Ritchie)
Midwinter Blues
Winter on the Island
Like A Lion in the Winter
Gloomy Winter's Now Awa (Tannahill
Winter and I (Carol Denney)
a-roving on a winter's night
Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond
Get Ye Hence (A Winter's Tale)
Wintertime and the whining is easy (parody)
Winter-Piece (Charles Tomlinson)
Winter, Fire, and Snow (from Anúna)
Winter's Tale
When Winter Walks (from Childe Rolande)
Gloomy Winter's Now Awa'
Winter is Here?
Winter's Song (Alan Hull)
Smells like Winter, Smells Like Soup
Winterwood
Midwest Winter Driving Song (Randy Sabien
De Winter'll Soon Be Over
Shelly's Winter Love (Merle Haggard)
The Winter Song / Terror Time
Curragh of Kildare/The Winter It Is Past
See amid the Winter's Snow (Caswell, Goss) Wonderland
Winter: A Dirge (Robert Burns)
Smoking In A Winter Winterland
Winterwood (Don McLean)
The Winter Song
Winter Song (Ewan MacColl)
The Winter, It Is Past
Faded Love and Winter Roses (Fred Rose)


(A few of these may have been mentioned earlier in the thread.)

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 05:45 PM

That's weird, because I did a search before I created this post and it came back with "No results found..." I did wonder about that.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please! (songs)
From: Genie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 06:02 PM

Hmmm. Not sure how that happened, unless you didn't specify "all" on the forum drop-down search menu.

I tried it with "winter," "frozen," "frosty, "snow," "December," "January," "February," "chilly," and "cold" and came up with these titles (again, there may be a few that have already been mentioned):

Cold Wind Blows (Alasdair Clayre)
The cold wind blew over the sea
Out in the Cold Cold Snow (Gracie Fields)
Brr it's a cold day (Brr it's a chilly day)
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Rain & Snow / Cold Rain and Snow
Cold is the snow that lay in Glencoe
(lyric) 'in the cold gray dawn of December'
Cold February (Robin Williamson)
Snow (from Loreena McKennitt)
Cold Haily Rainy Night (Planxty)
The Sheep Are 'Neath the Snow
Chilly Winds
Drifting Vistling Snow (Ernest Iverson)
Snow Song (Peter Bond)
Suzy Snowflake
Snowflake Song
When the Snowflakes Fall Again
The Walker of the Snow (Shanly, Tyrrell)
the snow is on the ground
The Snows (John Renbourn)
Wait Until The Snow (McTell)
Awaiting the Snow (Lui Collins)
Water under Snow Is WearyThe cat is in the snow
Out of the Snow (Russell Smith)        
Eyelids into Snow (Sonny Condell)
I Still Write Your Name In the Snow
Like the Snow (Sydney Carter)
Roses In The Snow (Emmylou Harris)
Flower in the Snow (Allan Taylor)
Snows Of Glencoe
Teardrops Falling in the Snow
Snowbird
Deepening Snow
The Snow Lay On The Ground
Snow Deer (closed)Jericho (Ho Ro the Wind and Snow) (G Bok)        
The Snow Legend (A Temple, J W Clokey)        
Where Did My Snowman Go?        
When the Snow Falls on My Foggy Mt. Home        
Snow Snow (Pete Seeger)
If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas (Autry)
Dark December (Graeme Miles)
Roses In December (George Jessel)
Faded Roses Of December
The Month of January (Noel McLoughlin)
Eighth of January        
January Song (Lindisfarne)
January Man (Dave Goulder)
The January June (parody by Les Barker)
Sad February (Graeme Miles)

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 06:18 PM

Cream:

t is a cold winter,
Away is the songbird.
And gone is her traveller,
She waits at home.

The sun is on holiday,
No leaves on the trees.
The animals sleep
While cold North wind blows.

The snowflakes are falling,
The roof a white blanket.
There's ice on the window pane,
She waits alone.

She sits by the fireside,
The room is so warm.
Her children are sleeping,
She waits in their home.

Passing the time.
Passing the time.
Everything fine.
Passing the time, drinking red wine.
Passing the time, drinking red wine.
Passing the time, drinking red wine.
Passing the time, everything fine.
Passing the time, drinking red wine.
Passing the time, everything fine.
Passing the time, wine and time rhyme.
Passing the time.

It is a long winter,
Away is the summer.
She waits for her traveller
So far from home.

She sits by the fireside,
The room is so warm.
There's ice on the window,
She's lonely alone.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,Geordie-Peorgie (Sans cookie)
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 06:24 PM

Cold, Blow And A Haily Night

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: deepdoc1
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 07:19 PM

There's some real imagery in Tommy Thompson's
"Hot Buttered Rum"

John Prine's "Christmas In Prison"
Bob Gibson & Tom Paxton did "Box Of Candy And A Piece Of Fruit"


No Christmas gift I've ever come by,
Whether trains or homemade socks,
Has haunted me like one sweet orange
And some candy in a box.

Several years ago at Christmas
I remember it so well
I spent a very lonely Christmas
Inside a lonely prison cell.

I'd been workin' in Toronto
In a Folk Song Coffee Shop.
It was hot and it was smokey
I just didn't know how hot!

I had a run-in with the Mounties,
R-C-M-P was their name.
They didn't look like Sargeant Preston
And they didn't act the same.

They had a stack of wants and warrants
Big enough to make a book
And they were mad about my smokin'
And some other stuff I took.

And so the Magistrate presided
And he set a monstrous bail.
I said "Judge, I stand here busted."
I got hustled off to jail.

The next four months were quite a party,
Lots of time to meditate (Ommm).
It's a different world in prison,
It's a different kind of wait.

It was early in November
I first heard them tell the tale
About the Sally Army's visit
Every Christmas time in jail.

A great annual occasion,
A great Yuletide salute.
Silent Night and seedy Santa,
A Box of candy and a piece of fruit.

Yes a box of Christmas candy
And a naval orange, to boot.
I heard the old cons talk about it,
Box of candy and a piece of fruit.

Til I could almost taste the candy,
I could almost smell the fruit.
Every day a little closer,
Box of candy and a piece of fruit.

Til I had a great misfortune
Worse than all my time in jail.
Twenty third day of December
That lousy judge lowered my bail!

He did it in the Christmas Spirit.
My friends and family raised the loot,
Never knowing I'd be losing
My Box of candy and piece of fruit.

So, Virginia, there's a Santa.
And if Santa ain't too mean
He owes me a box of candy
And a fuckin' tangerine!

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: deepdoc1
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 07:34 PM

Also, "Darkest Days, Brightest Nights" (Ruth Merenda aka Ruthie Ungar) is a cool title.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: scouse
Date: 13 Oct 12 - 04:34 AM

No one mentioned "Copper's Christmas Song."

As Aye,

Phil.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Oct 12 - 06:32 PM

Bold Orion

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 13 Oct 12 - 09:37 PM

must say I didn't read every title in the posts above, so I may have missed it. Wonderful title for a book, and a song of great antiquity [ok, it's merely very old]
To drive the cold winter away
I'm sure Loreena McKennitt has recorded it.
cheers
dennis

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 13 Oct 12 - 09:50 PM

oops. Sorry Genie! I know the title with the preposition at the front, missed in in your above post. Also missed another's post of the same song, but by its opening line, which might well make a great title for the novel nameless GUEST says is also nameless ... best of luck with finding a propitious title and with the book itself!!!
if you've been here for years you're not a newbie. Lots of people read and rarely post, & you will have come to know and appreciate how COMPLETELY AWESOME mudcat.org is. Rich and thoughtful response to your query in a few hours. Love it. Keep singing. Keep sharing. Keep 'catting!
dennis

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Beer
Date: 13 Oct 12 - 10:10 PM

How about, "It's fu...ing Cold".
ad.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Kele
Date: 14 Oct 12 - 02:03 PM

Thank you all again! As you can see, I am now an official member (Again, thank you, Joe).

I've pretty much decided on Turning Toward the Morning. I was going to go with "To Drive the Cold Winter Away," because it's actually relevant to the plot. But it didn't feel right in my stomach.

I now have a whole list of great titles pinned to my desk, too. You guys are awesome.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 Oct 12 - 06:49 PM

Ian Hardie, "The First Frost of Winter":

http://www.ian-hardie.co.uk/scores/firstfrost.mscz.pdf

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: AnneMC
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 03:37 AM

MORNING TRAIN TO SOMEWHERE
by Colleen Hodgson -Songs of Maggie

The shore line of Toronto is a frozen winter swell
The hard side of a tavern is a place she knows too well
All alone in the morning as the embers die, little robin girl, you're gonna fly

She laughed with them sailor boys who tore her gown
Snatching up the silver that they liked to toss around
She has a budding wing and a beady eye, little robin girl, you're gonna fly
      
        Fly to the moon, fly to the stars,
        Fly to where they understand what you are
        You can kiss the sun, you can find the one,
        The one that truly loves you       (x 2 )

And though you found her in the snow, pack your carpet bag and go
On the morning train........ to somewhere

As the branches glisten in the pale winter day
Train whistle blowing now, she's on her way
On a polar wind across an endless sky
Little robin girl, you're going to fly

You know you found her in the snow , pack your carpet bag and go
On the morning train........ to somewhere

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 04:23 AM

Nice choice TURNING TOWARD THE MORNING

mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7448

Link to song...but... dead link to MIDI tune at the bottom.

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Artful Codger
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 04:56 PM

Note: Though many links in the DigiTrad are currently broken, the mirror site (sniff.numachi.com) is functioning normally; lyrics, MIDIs, PDFs and the like can be found there. (But don't ask me why "sniff" or "numachi"; it's not my site.)

Subject: RE: Need Winter Song Titles, please!
From: Mysha
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 05:53 PM

Hi,

Reading through this thread, I was going to say that, considering you had trouble finding a title, all those titles with cold words in them are probably too literal. But I see you already found that out for yourself.

Still, as I came up with a non-bitter-cold type of winter title, let me suggest it anyway: The Comfort of Singing Voices.


So, do you have book presentations where the titles are actually sung?

Bye,
                                                                  Mysha