Here's how I hear it, from YouTube


LONESOME SCENES OF WINTER
As recorded by the Southern Melody Boys, 1937.

In lonesome scenes of winter,
Inclined to frost and snow,
Dark clouds gathered 'round me.
The window loud and blow.*

I went to see my lover.
She threw most scornfully.**
Asked her if she'd marry.
She would not answer me.

I set there the livelong night
Until the break of day,
Waiting for an answer.
"Kind miss, what do you say?"

"If I'm to answer you,
I'd choose a single life.
It never thought it suited
For me to be your wife."

I wrote to her a letter
And sent it back in speed,
Saying: "I loved you once most dearly.
I loved you once indeed.

"It's on the Atlantic Ocean
Another I'll pursue.
The world is wide and pleasant.
There's more as good as you."


* This line doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm mishearing it, but if I had to sing it, I'd sing "The wind so loud did blow."

** Likewise, I'd sing "She withdrew most scornfully."