Favorite Winter songs

Subject: Favorite Winter songs
From: CharlieA
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:07 AM

I'm really curious - what are peoples favorite winter songs - Christmas, yule or whatever.

I always loved singing The Sans Day Carol in our local Cornish Church with our School Choirs - days well past now unfortunately!

Cxxx

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:13 AM

What is a winter song ? Is it different from a summer one or do you mean Christmas songs. If so My favourite is the Huron Carol.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:19 AM

I thought Winter songs would be songs by the late Eric Winter !!

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:27 AM

If you mean winter(as opposed to Christmas, Yule seasonal festival stuff) I would like to suggest "Frobisher Bay" as a remarkable song that is really about the whole concept of "cold".

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: CharlieA
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:41 AM

I kinda mean all christmas or yule or whatever you want to call the wintery festival thing that happens around this time of year.

Another fave of mine is Jonny Copin's adaptation of the Innocent's song by Charles Causley.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:44 AM

The Festival is called Christmas... We are are allowed to say Christmas, aren't we ? Or is that politically incorrect as well ?

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:53 AM

Well, if we are on best seasonal festival songs I would go along with your Sans Day carol, along with two other ties for equal first, Vaughan Williams setting of "O little town of Bethlehem"(sorry, Americans, you have a different tune). And my third equal, Holst's setting of "In the Bleak Midwinter". Actually, I said vaughan Williams setting: I think he only matched the tune to the words, and harmonised it. I think it's traditional.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 08:56 AM

'Ace of spades' by Motorhead.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 09:11 AM

Sans Day carol? Per-leeze
Now the Holly bears a berry as white as the milk OH NO IT DOESN'T - IT'S RED!!!!!!!

The Holly and the Ivy at least gets it right

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: cetmst
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 09:45 AM

Just a few off the top of my head. I'm wintering in New Hampshire and my collection is in Maryland:
To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Turning Toward the Morning
Hearth and Fire
The Coldest Winter in Living Memory
Demeter's Daughter
In the Bleak Midwinter
More Wood
Any of many Wassailing Songs
Apples in Winter
Bill Morrissey's song about birch fire vs. oak
The Winter It Is Past
Peter Kagan and the Wind
Panhandle Wind
Winter Cows
Winter Is I-cumin In, Loudly Sing Goddamn
Blizzard
Waiting for Isabella
John Cook
Why Should We Curse the Winter
Mad Fiddler of the North Country
Mary on the Cold Moor
Time to Remember the Poor
Seasons of Peace
Forty Below
Farewell to Cold Winter
New Year's Toast

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: CharlieA
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 09:53 AM

I love the tune of the sans day carol - oh and - My father who grows many varied plants/trees etc does indeed grow a holly tree with white berries - sorry ;)

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: jaze
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:15 AM

Urge For Going

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: dwditty
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:33 AM

I second Jaze's emotion - especially sung by Dave Van Ronk.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:37 AM

In The Bleak Midwinter, closely followed by jaze's choice. Haven't heard it by DVR, but Joni's is good enough for me.

Subject: Lyr Add: A CHILDREN'S WINTER (Dermott O'Reilly)
From: Barry T
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 12:54 PM

Dermott O'Reilly's 'A Children's Winter'. A gentle song that evokes memories of childhood (especially mine). 'Love it!

A Children's Winter

The winter snow is a child's delight
As it brightens up the winter night
And coats the earth in a cheery white
As it softly drifts upon it.

The smiling faces watch the ground
As the snow is falling all around
And through the glass, there comes no sound
As the snowflakes melt upon it.

Snow Man, Snow House… Hey, play with me
Shake the snow down from the tree
Games once played by you and me
Snow is softly falling.

The morning comes and the children play
Their laughter rings out through the day
They hope the snow is here to stay
And it won't be gone tomorrow.

Chorus

Sliding, running down the hill
The time for fun is now but still
As they climb up life's long hill
They're sure to meet some sorrow.

Chorus (Twice)

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Barry T
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 12:58 PM

Sorry... the indentation of the chorus didn't register on the posting above. The chorus is the stanza that starts with 'Snow Man... Snow House....'

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: MMario
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 01:11 PM

various hollies have berries in red, orange, yellow, white, green, black - THAT I KNOW OF - I *think* there is one variety that has blue berries - but I'm not sure.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Metchosin
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 01:31 PM

Auld Lang Syne

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 04:54 PM

Not being pushy, but if interested you can see (and copy, if you like) our video Christmas Card aat website www.jeanritchie.com Click on the first small portrait near the top of homepage. The song is my, "Wintergrace."

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Tradsinger
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:37 PM

I saw mummy kissing Santa Claus.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:50 PM

Gaudete

Gerry

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:56 PM

Beautiful, Jean, looks like our Kentucky tonight!

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 06:04 PM

Hanover Winter Song here

I have a niece at Dartmouth -- why in the world would anyone want to live above the MD line????????

For the wolf-wind is wailing at the doorways,
And the snow drifts deep along the road,
And the ice gnomes are marching from their Norways,
And the great white cold walks abroad.

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 06:05 PM

Alan Hull's Winter Song

Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs
From: number 6
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:03 PM

Crystal Silence by Chick Corea and Gary Burton. Not a song, but a tune that reflects the hidden beauty of the cold, cold winter.