Lyr Req: Rain and Snow

Subject: Lyric Request: Rain and Snow
From: Jack (who is called jack)
Date: 28 Nov 98 - 01:36 PM

I have a friend looking for traditional lyrics to a song with lyrics that go

Ever since I was a wife I've had trouble all my life

Run me out in the cold rain and snow.

Its in a minor key and sounds like an old mountain ballad.

Anyone know it or versions of it.

Thanks in advance.

Jack

Subject: RE: Lyric Request: Rain and Snow
From: Bruce O.
Date: 28 Nov 98 - 01:48 PM

It is an old mountain ballad. I think it was Obray Ramsay that sang it on an LP.

Subject: RE: Lyric Request: Rain and Snow
From: Wally Macnow
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 06:52 AM

It's a song I've always associated with Obray Ramsey. He did record it in the late 1950s or early 1960s. He sang it from the man's standpoint.

I took me a wife, give me trouble all of my life Threw me out in the cold rain and snow.

I only remember one other verse but you can get a full set of lyrics from [e-mail]. Just say I suggested you get in touch.

Wally Macnow www.camsco.com

Subject: RE: Lyric Request: Rain and Snow
From: Bobby Bob, Ellan Vannin
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 07:27 PM

Did the Grateful Dead use this as the basis for one of their offerings - a mere thirty or so years ago? Probably on their first album, if my memory serves me. But if my memory served me, I wouldn't have to ask. And anyway, it's probably a totally different song. Ah well, back to the bottle.

Bobby Bob.

Subject: RE: Lyric Request: Rain and Snow
From: Bruce O.
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 03:06 PM

Practically the same as the verse quoted by Wally M. above is the single verse of "Rain and Snow" in Sharp and Karpeles' 'English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians', #116 (with a tune).

Subject: RE: Lyric Request: Rain and Snow
From: Animaterra
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 04:35 PM

Pentangle did it too.