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09 Jan 03 - 07:08 AM (#862400) Subject: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: fogie Looking out the window this morning, I was struggling to remember a song perhaps by Pete Coe?? called the stillness that the snow brings, Can anyone help-espacially the 3rd verse. |
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09 Jan 03 - 11:12 AM (#862644) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Fogie, sounds like you have part of it already. Could you post what you have? I don't recall it, but it could be like "See Amid the Winter's Snow", or in Gaelic, there is one about Snow being like a coverlet(blanket). |
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09 Jan 03 - 11:19 AM (#862653) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: GUEST,Mark This is a song called "Snow Song" by Peter Bond. It's on his LP "See me up see me down". I'll have to get it out to get the words down for you when I get home. |
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09 Jan 03 - 01:54 PM (#862847) Subject: Lyr Add: SNOW SONG (Peter Bond) From: GUEST,Mark Right I'm home and have dug "See me up see me down" out and here are the words to: SNOW SONG by Peter Bond The city stood yawning at the dark end of the year Chimney smoke clinging to the tired looking rain Last summer's leaves, dreams and invitations to the ball Lay greasy in the gutters or had long gone down the drain And while the winter made a treadmill of each day That barred the way to spring It fell from a sky of slate The stillness that the snow brings The snow on the rooftops threw the moon back at the dark Out on the marshes you could hear the cattle breath Highways deserted, every footfall left its mark The magpie on the meadow and the fox across the heath Frost on the window put the silversmith to shame With its wild imaginings They danced like a candle flame In the stillness that the snow brings The thorny undergrowth still waits beneath the drift The ragged iron and broken stone Soon enough to find them when the snows begin to shift They'll get no sharper if for once you leave them on their own And did you hear the silver notes and see the band Shine like white fire in the shadow of the mill Or in the evening hear the peals the bellman send Leap from the tower and tumble laughing down the hill There'll still be summer and the chatter in the trees But let them wait to sing Just sink in up to your knees In the stillness that the snow brings There'll still be summer and the chatter in the trees But let them wait to sing Just sink in up to your knees In the stillness that the snow brings I do quite a few of Peter's songs but for some reason I've not got round to this one. I think I'll learn it now I've written it down! He's not been on the road for years but I saw him at Four Fools festival in Chorley last year - he came along just to see a couple of people but we got a couple of songs out of him in one of the workshops. He hasn't changed a bit apart from looking a bit older! It was great to see him again. |
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09 Jan 03 - 01:58 PM (#862856) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: GUEST,Mark Sorry - there should be an e on the end of breath so that line should read: Out on the marshes you could hear the cattle breathe |
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09 Jan 03 - 08:51 PM (#863160) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: Lane Love these lyrics... where can I find a recording? |
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10 Jan 03 - 03:14 AM (#863337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: GUEST,Mark Lane Try this site to buy the LP: http://www.vinylrecords.co.uk/ Put Peter Bond in the search box and you get three LPs of Peter's on offer. Another correction to the words having just heard it again "Or in the evening hear the peals the bellman send" Should read "Or in the evening hear the peals the BELLMEN send" It isn't much but it makes more sense. Cheers Mark |
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13 Jan 03 - 06:31 AM (#865798) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: fogie THANK YOU VERY MUCH MARK IT WAS PETE BPND! |
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13 Jan 03 - 08:16 AM (#865838) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: stillness that the snow brings From: GUEST,Raggyteash Mark, I too do |some of Peters songs, might have to dig this one up myself. Great songwriter and sad loss to the folk scene when he retired |