Chord Req: Flower in the Snow (Allan Taylor)

Subject: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: girochaser
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 08:58 AM

Good Day All,
I was wondering if any of you can help me I have reciently heard a song called Flowers in the Snow at a local folk club it was done accapella but no one seemed to know the chords for it. Would any of you be able to provide these for me. Any help would be apprecuated
thanks
Giro

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 10:24 AM

I used to do the song some years ago - chords were D, G, A (A7 maybe) and Bm I think, but I'll get the guitar out tonight and post tomorrow - by which time no doubt others will have already obliged. Good luck with the song - I heard Alan Taylor grumble that he doesn't like ordinary mortals covering his songs, so I don't bother any more.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 11:55 AM

That's an odd comment Jim - I asked Allan if he'd mind me recording 'Come Home Safely To Me' and he seemed delighted! He told me he's very happy if others cover his songs, but he likes them to do them their own way, not just slavishly copy his version. Maybe that's where the rumour came from??
S:0)

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: Amos
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 12:05 PM

Glad to hear that, since I have been playing Flower in the Snow for a year now.

The chords are just the major triad (tonic, subdominant, dominant) in a style similar to but slower than the famous riff in "La Bamba". 1, 4, 5, with a walk down to the relative minor where the verse goes "Like a mountain stream, all crystalline and clean".

In C: C, F, G, Am.


A

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: Sooz
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 03:59 AM

When I asked Allan about me singing any of his songs, he actually suggested Flower in the Snow. This thread has reminded me that its time it returned to the repertoire!

Subject: Chords Add: FLOWER IN THE SNOW (Allan Taylor)
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 08:24 AM

It's a few years since I played it, and my recording is on those old large plastic disk things now stored in the loft, but as I recall I played it like this:

Flower In The Snow
Allan Taylor

D    A
A      A7      D    G   A    A7       D         G    A      
It was just a moment,       a moment of passion
A7               D       G             Bm
Like a mountain stream crystalline and clean
             A       Asus2   A
Tumbling and crashing
       A7       D    G    A    A7            D    G   A
It was something special          few will ever know
A7               D    G             Bm
Something out of line standing out of time
                D      A
A flower in the snow

He was just a wanderer on his way to nowhere
Like a bird in flight passing in the night
Didn't have a care
She came to him in darkness and gave it all away
After years of waiting shyly hesitating
She stayed till day
But the wanderer left her and travelled on his way
Whistling a tune to the man in the moon
Far away
And she lit a candle and left it in her window
Let the light burn 'cause lovers never learn
How to let go

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 08:27 AM

Can someone tell me why the formatting gets screwed?? When I typed out the lyrics and chords they were lined up fine - now when I check the read-back they're spaced incorrectly!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 12:54 PM

It's 'The Law Of Cussedness', Jim! LOL1

Subject: Chords Add: FLOWER IN THE SNOW (Allan Taylor)
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 17 Mar 05 - 09:04 AM

OK – I found the recording, and it's not quite as I remembered it – easier in fact. Allan plays it with a simple "Dum-Ching" rhythm, and NOT as posted by Amos - "in a style similar to but slower than the famous riff in "La Bamba".

Flower In The Snow (From the Album "Lines" – 1988)

Allan Taylor

Capo 1st Fret

(D)    (A)
It was just a (D)moment, (A)    a moment of (D)passion (G)
Like a mountain (D)stream (G)crystalline and (Bm)clean
Tumbling and (D)crashing (A)
It was something (D)special (A)   few will ever (D)know (G)
Something out of (D)line (G)standing out of (Bm)time
A flower in the (D)snow (A)
(D)   (A)

He was just a wanderer on his way to nowhere
Like a bird in flight passing in the night
He didn't have a care
And she came to him in darkness, gave it all away
All the years of waiting, shyly hesitating
She stayed till day

(Chorus)

But the wanderer left her, travelled on his way
Whistling a tune for the man in the moon
Far away
She lit a candle, left it in her window
Let the light burn 'cause lovers never learn
How to let go

(Chorus) When it was just a moment….

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Flower in the Snow by Allan Taylor
From: GUEST,Girochaser
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 05:34 PM

I totally forgot about posting this thread and I was probably sober at the time. Whats all that about.
Any way I'm out working on the rigs at the moment and I thought look in the mudcat for a clue and I came across this wee link. How lucky am i that people dont hold grudges about length of time since posting. I thank you all for posting a reply it is very much appreciated.

Cheers and cheerio for the noo

Dylan