Lyr Add: When the Snowflakes Fall Again

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE SNOWFLAKES FALL AGAIN
From: GLoux
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 11:55 AM

WHEN THE SNOWFLAKES FALL AGAIN
(Frank Jenkins and His Pilot Mountaineers)
3/4 time

Alone I sit down by the fireside
Thinking of someone I love
Reading a letter a treasure from him
Oh, I wish he was here
I long for his presence right here in this room
Hear him say, "Love, I'll remain"
I know he will come for the last words he said
When the snowflakes fall again


When the snowflakes fall again
Will you then think of me
After weary years of strife
I'll turn brown eyes to you
Come give me a kiss
For tonight we must part
Sunshine will follow the rain
So keep me ever in your heart
'Till the snowflakes fall again



Today I was glad to see the snowfall
Pretty flakes fly in the air
I thought of my darling, my love and my own
And oh, I wish he was here
I long to hear his footsteps in the hall
Hear him say, "Love, I'll remain"
I know he will come for the last words he said
When the snowflakes fall again



Come give me a kiss for tonight we must part
Don't dim your eye with a tear
For remember my darling your place in my heart
And a home in my memory so dear
I'm going away to a far distant land
And I know not how long I'll remain
If you'll only be true then I'll comeback to you
When the snowflakes fall again



-Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: When The Snowflakes Fall Again
From: MMario
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 12:02 PM

see Till the Snow-Flakes Come Again Levy Sheet Music Collection - box 139 item 012

Words & Music by Gussie L. Davis.
Publication: New York: Geo. Propheter, 20 W. 14th St., 1887.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: When The Snowflakes Fall Again
From: GLoux
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 12:11 PM

Thanks for the Levy link. Frank Jenkins recorded it in the 1920's. The Rhythm Rats recorded a version of it on I Believe I'll Go Back Home, Marimac 9069D.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: When The Snowflakes Fall Again
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 07:36 PM

The Frank Jenkins recording is available on the Document CD that features the complete recordings of Jenkins, DaCosta Woltz and others from the same region.

Subject: Lyr Add: TILL THE SNOW-FLAKES COME AGAIN
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 03:41 PM

The lyrics from the sheet music are significantly different, so I'll post them here:

TILL THE SNOW-FLAKES COME AGAIN
Gussie L. Davis, 1887.

1. I'm lonely tonight as I sit by the fire,
Thinking of one far away,
Reading old letters I've treasured from him
Who was to have been here today.
Oh! if I could hear his footsteps at the door,
My heart would not languish in pain.
I know he will come, for his last words were, "Wait
Till the snowflakes come again."

CHORUS: Till the snowflakes come again,
Will you think often of me?
After days of weary pain,
I will return, little bright eyes.
Kiss me, darling, ere we part;
Sunshine will follow the rain.
Keep me always in your heart
Till snowflakes come again.

2. Today I was glad when I saw the snow fall
And the pearly flakes fly through the air.
I thought of my darling, my lov'd one, my all.
I knew it was time he was here.
I long for his presence once more in this room,
And hear him say, "Love, I'll remain;"
For sad was the hour when he left me to mourn
Till the snowflakes come again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: When The Snowflakes Fall Again
From: GLoux
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 12:59 PM

Thanks, Jim. Makes me wonder where the third verse came from. The Folk Process in action, I guess...

-Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: When The Snowflakes Fall Again
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:07 PM

There was I expecting (from the thread title) a parody of The White Rose of Athens

Till the white rose blooms again
You must leave me, leave me lonely
So goodbye my love till then
Till the white rose blooms again



Of course, the parody now becomes an interesting concept! *BG*

Nigel