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.
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