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22 Dec 04 - 07:07 AM (#1363017) Subject: Favorite Winter songs From: CharlieA 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 |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:13 AM (#1363019) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: GUEST 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. |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:19 AM (#1363021) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Leadfingers I thought Winter songs would be songs by the late Eric Winter !! |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:27 AM (#1363025) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: greg stephens 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". |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:41 AM (#1363032) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: CharlieA 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. |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:44 AM (#1363035) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: GUEST The Festival is called Christmas... We are are allowed to say Christmas, aren't we ? Or is that politically incorrect as well ? |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:53 AM (#1363039) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: greg stephens 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. |
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22 Dec 04 - 08:56 AM (#1363094) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Paco Rabanne 'Ace of spades' by Motorhead. |
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22 Dec 04 - 09:11 AM (#1363104) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: GUEST 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 |
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22 Dec 04 - 09:45 AM (#1363127) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: cetmst 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 |
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22 Dec 04 - 09:53 AM (#1363132) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: CharlieA 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 ;) |
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22 Dec 04 - 11:15 AM (#1363202) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: jaze Urge For Going |
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22 Dec 04 - 11:33 AM (#1363226) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: dwditty I second Jaze's emotion - especially sung by Dave Van Ronk. |
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22 Dec 04 - 11:37 AM (#1363230) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Pete Jennings In The Bleak Midwinter, closely followed by jaze's choice. Haven't heard it by DVR, but Joni's is good enough for me. |
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22 Dec 04 - 12:54 PM (#1363312) Subject: Lyr Add: A CHILDREN'S WINTER (Dermott O'Reilly) From: Barry T 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) |
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22 Dec 04 - 12:58 PM (#1363316) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Barry T 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....' |
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22 Dec 04 - 01:11 PM (#1363322) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: MMario 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. |
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22 Dec 04 - 01:31 PM (#1363340) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Metchosin Auld Lang Syne |
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22 Dec 04 - 04:54 PM (#1363517) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) 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." |
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22 Dec 04 - 05:37 PM (#1363552) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Tradsinger I saw mummy kissing Santa Claus. |
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22 Dec 04 - 05:50 PM (#1363559) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Banjo-Flower Gaudete Gerry |
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22 Dec 04 - 05:56 PM (#1363570) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Mary in Kentucky Beautiful, Jean, looks like our Kentucky tonight! |
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22 Dec 04 - 06:04 PM (#1363576) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: Mary in Kentucky 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. |
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22 Dec 04 - 06:05 PM (#1363579) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: TheBigPinkLad Alan Hull's Winter Song |
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22 Dec 04 - 07:03 PM (#1363624) Subject: RE: Favorite Winter songs From: number 6 Crystal Silence by Chick Corea and Gary Burton. Not a song, but a tune that reflects the hidden beauty of the cold, cold winter. |