Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather

Subject: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: GUEST,Happyinthehowe
Date: 11 Nov 19 - 04:42 PM

Hi folks,

With the first snows of winter here in Scotland I wondered how many songs we could come up with about weather!

Just a wee challenge for the dark nights.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 11 Nov 19 - 04:49 PM

Cold, haily, rainy night
Stormy Weather, Boys
The Tempest (Cease Rude Boreas)
Westling Winds
January Brings the Snow
The Winter it is past
Cold blows the wind

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 04:49 AM

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 12 Nov 19 - 09:26 AM

Four Strong Winds/ Ian and Sylvia...The Frozen Logger/ Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Five Feet High and Risin/Johnny Cash

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: EBarnacle
Date: 13 Nov 19 - 09:19 PM

Woody Guthrie's "So long, it's been good to know you"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: matt milton
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 04:07 AM

Wasn't that a mighty Storm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XHOi-hG3Y0

I'd like to know more songs about natural disasters, weather related... a lot of those dustbowl ballads are becoming very timely.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Ged Fox
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 05:02 AM

Cold's the wind and wet's the rain.
Westron wind.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 08:47 AM

Mighty Day
Rock me mama like a hurricane
This is the story of the hurricane
On a dark stormy night, not a star was in sight
It was a dark and cheerless night
Rain, rain, go away
The song where the little girl freezes, like the little match girl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 11:54 AM

Ooh ooh Equinoctial Gale

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 12:40 PM

The trees are a' stripped o' their mantle o' green.
The leaves o' the forest nae langer are seen.
Cald winter is here wi' its dreich icy coat,
But we're happy a' thegether ower a wee drappie o't:

Also the opening verse of some versions of Long a-growing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 01:41 PM

Correction: "ower" should of course be "owre".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 07:47 PM

Good King Wenceslaus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Nick
Date: 14 Nov 19 - 08:34 PM

Anything by Wet, Wet, Wet

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: GUEST,JohnH
Date: 15 Nov 19 - 04:29 AM

The Candle Light Fisherman

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 15 Nov 19 - 07:27 AM

Shelter From The Storm bob dylan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 16 Nov 19 - 11:33 PM

Bay of Fundy - Gordon Bok

When Fall Comes to New England - Cheryl Wheeler


Who Knows Where the Time Goes ( Judy Collins)

And I thnk Dylan said it best ;)

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows .

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 04:12 AM

windy old weather.
n this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all pull together
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all pull together
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all pull together
And up jumped the herring, the king of the sea
He sang out old skipper, now you can catch me
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together
And up jumped the mackrel with his stripped back
He sang out old skipper, hum haul your main tag
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together
And up jumped the sprat, the smallest of all
He sang out old skipper, hum haul your trawl haul
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together
And up jumped the crab with his great long claw
He sang out old skipper, you'll run us ashore
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together
And up jumped the herring, all broken and spent
He sang rifting's finished now who'll pay the rent
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together
And up jumped the herring, right under the lay
He sang rifting's finished, who's bother with me
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together
And up jumped the herring, the king of a shore
He sang rifting's finished, gotta stay on the door
In this windy old weather, stormy old weather
Whilst when the wind blows we'll all go together

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Nick
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 07:12 AM

What have they done to the rain.

Started singing this again recently

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: GUEST,Splott Man
Date: 18 Nov 19 - 07:34 AM

Snow Falls - John Tams
Autumn Song - Harvey Andrews
Ship in Distress

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: oldhippie
Date: 19 Nov 19 - 05:56 PM

"Fire" by David Mallett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tOQCemNy8

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folksongs about weather
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Nov 19 - 08:23 PM

When the Snows of Winter Fall - Graeme Miles
The Snows that Melt the Soonest
The January Man
Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain
It might as well rain until September
In the early morning Rain
You are my Sunshine
Sunshine on my shoulder
Windy Harbour