Lyr Req: When Winter Walks (from Childe Rolande)

Subject: 'when winter walks upon the hill'
From: GUEST,wild goose chase
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 12:05 PM

I've been haunted and frustrated for decades by a fragment of lyric which I can't trace:

When winter walks upon the hill
And stands within this place
Then I will come to you once more
To look upon your face
To look upon your face

Glimpsed it as a child c.1990. It was the sample text on an ad for a word processing programme in a UK computer magazine (?!). I haven't been able to find it in any anthology or search engine, and I wonder if it has even been published. This is almost certainly a fruitless quest - but this is just the sort of place where the author *might* turn up. I'd be absolutely stunned and delighted if anyone can find it!

Subject: RE: 'when winter walks upon the hill'
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 05:48 PM

I had no luck at all.

Subject: RE: 'when winter walks upon the hill'
From: delphinium
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 01:14 AM

There's an mp3 sample clip here of the part of the song you've posted - recorded by "Childe Rolande" on their album/cassette Long Last (1990). No info about the song but the group seems to write their own material and the web site has e-mail addresses so perhaps you can find out more (click on the text to order the cassette, or on the musicians' names on the main page).

Subject: RE: 'when winter walks upon the hill'
From: GUEST,wild goose chase
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 08:13 AM

Thank you so much, delphinium, that's amazing!
I haven't got a sound card but I'll order their cassette.
Just goes to show that everything lost can be found at mudcat - what a wonderful place.
many thanks!