Lyr Req: Snowflake Song

Subject: Lyr Req: Snowfflake Song
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 10:11 PM

My mother used to sing this one. I only remember the forst 2 lines.

When ere a snowflake leaves the sky
It turns and turns to say goodbye

Can someone please finish this song for me ?

SOL ZELLER

Subject: a rose by any other name
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 12:03 AM

http://www.thelearningleap.com/winter.html

lotsa snowflake lyrics/poems here but not that one...

one at kadiddle website also, but still not that one...

Subject: Lyr Add: SNOWFLAKES (Mary Mapes Dodge)
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 12:23 AM

SNOWFLAKES
By Mary Mapes Dodge

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,
It turns and turns to say "Good-by!
Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"
Then lightly travels on its way.

And when a snowflake finds a tree,
"Good-day!" it says—"Good-day to thee!
Thou art so bare and lonely, dear,
I'll rest and call my comrades here."

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,
Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,
It starts—"How warm and soft the day!
'Tis summer!"—and it melts away.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snowfflake Song
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:19 PM

Thank you Amos. Would you happen to know in what year that song was written, and in what publication it can be found ? SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snowfflake Song
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:33 PM

Levy credits it to Longfellow and Cowen

Snow Flakes.
Words by [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow. Music by Frederic H. Cowen.
Frederic H. Cowen Publication: Philadelphia:
W.H. Boner & Co.
1314 Chestnut St

no date

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snowflake Song
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:49 PM

If Longfellow wrote the words and Cowen wrote the music, what was the role of Mary Maples Dodge, who Amos credits as the author of this song ? SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snowflake Song
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 10:03 PM

In Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed., An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1900), the authorship goes to Mary Mapes Dodge (click here).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snowflake Song
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 10:20 PM

Here's another snowflake song. mine of course




A                E7            A
Sitting alone in a one room log shack
                                 E7
The mountains are carrying the clouds on their backs
      A                            E7         A
The clouds they are nearer, it's starting to snow.
                                              E7       A
Are there more stars than snowflakes? I guess I don't know.



I look through the window at a storm getting near
There's often a blizzard this time of the year
Tomorrow it's Christmas, there's nowhere to go
Are there more stars than snowflakes? I guess I don't know.

A woman is riding alone in the storm
She sees the light shining and rides where it's warm
I open the door and I shout out 'Hello,
Are there more stars than snowflakes?' She yells I don't know

Come in for some coffee and stop for a while
I take her coat and she says with a smile
'I'll give you the answer you're wanting to know
Are there more stars than snowflakes? And then I must go'

We look through the window at a storm getting near
I ask the same question this time every year
She says she will answer and then she must go
Are there more stars than snowflakes? But she never does know.


Bert

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snowflake Song
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 02:23 PM

SNOW FLAKES by "M. M. D." appears in Webster's Progressive Speaker (New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1876), page 70.

The same poem is also quoted in a poetry review in The Literary World, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Boston, Mass.: E. H. Hames & Co., Jan. 3, 1880), page 12.

The review is of Along the Way by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879)—but that book has been reprinted as recently as 2007.