Lyr Req: Snow Song (Peter Bond)

Subject: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: fogie
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 07:08 AM

Looking out the window this morning, I was struggling to remember a song perhaps by Pete Coe?? called the stillness that the snow brings, Can anyone help-espacially the 3rd verse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From:
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 11:12 AM

Fogie, sounds like you have part of it already. Could you post what you have? I don't recall it, but it could be like "See Amid the Winter's Snow", or in Gaelic, there is one about Snow being like a coverlet(blanket).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 11:19 AM

This is a song called "Snow Song" by Peter Bond. It's on his LP "See me up see me down". I'll have to get it out to get the words down for you when I get home.

Subject: Lyr Add: SNOW SONG (Peter Bond)
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 01:54 PM

Right I'm home and have dug "See me up see me down" out and here are the words to:

SNOW SONG by Peter Bond

The city stood yawning at the dark end of the year
Chimney smoke clinging to the tired looking rain
Last summer's leaves, dreams and invitations to the ball
Lay greasy in the gutters or had long gone down the drain
And while the winter made a treadmill of each day
That barred the way to spring
It fell from a sky of slate
The stillness that the snow brings

The snow on the rooftops threw the moon back at the dark
Out on the marshes you could hear the cattle breath
Highways deserted, every footfall left its mark
The magpie on the meadow and the fox across the heath
Frost on the window put the silversmith to shame
With its wild imaginings
They danced like a candle flame
In the stillness that the snow brings

The thorny undergrowth still waits beneath the drift
The ragged iron and broken stone
Soon enough to find them when the snows begin to shift
They'll get no sharper if for once you leave them on their own

And did you hear the silver notes and see the band
Shine like white fire in the shadow of the mill
Or in the evening hear the peals the bellman send
Leap from the tower and tumble laughing down the hill
There'll still be summer and the chatter in the trees
But let them wait to sing
Just sink in up to your knees
In the stillness that the snow brings

There'll still be summer and the chatter in the trees
But let them wait to sing
Just sink in up to your knees
In the stillness that the snow brings


I do quite a few of Peter's songs but for some reason I've not got round to this one. I think I'll learn it now I've written it down!
He's not been on the road for years but I saw him at Four Fools festival in Chorley last year - he came along just to see a couple of people but we got a couple of songs out of him in one of the workshops. He hasn't changed a bit apart from looking a bit older!
It was great to see him again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 01:58 PM

Sorry - there should be an e on the end of breath so that line should read:

Out on the marshes you could hear the cattle breathe

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: Lane
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 08:51 PM

Love these lyrics... where can I find a recording?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:14 AM

Lane

Try this site to buy the LP:

http://www.vinylrecords.co.uk/

Put Peter Bond in the search box and you get three LPs of Peter's on offer.


Another correction to the words having just heard it again

"Or in the evening hear the peals the bellman send"

Should read

"Or in the evening hear the peals the BELLMEN send"

It isn't much but it makes more sense.

Cheers Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: fogie
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 06:31 AM

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MARK IT WAS PETE BPND!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings
From: GUEST,Raggyteash
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 08:16 AM

Mark,
I too do |some of Peters songs, might have to dig this one up myself. Great songwriter and sad loss to the folk scene when he retired