The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12016   Message #92470
Posted By: murry@mpce.mq.edu.au
05-Jul-99 - 02:07 AM
Thread Name: History of 'The Wind and Rain'?
Subject: RE: History of 'The Wind and Rain'?
There is a song done by Kilby Snow whose refrain is "The Wind and the Rain". It tells the story of a two lovers who go out in a boat and the man kills the woman for refusing to mary him. It is another one of those stories where parts of the woman are made into a musical instrument. In this case a fiddle which will only play the tune "All the Wind and the Rain"

When sings it along with the autoharp, it is very effective. I think he claims to have learned it from his grandmother in N. Carolina.

It doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to the Elizabethean "Hail, Ho, the Wind and the Rain."

Murray