Rain and Snow

"Rain and Snow" as collected by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp, 1917.

"Rain and Snow", also known as "Cold Rain and Snow" (Roud 3634),[1] is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad.[2] The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, which relates that it was collected from Mrs. Tom Rice in Big Laurel, North Carolina in 1916. The melody is pentatonic.[3]

Campbell and Sharp's version collected only a single verse:

Lord, I married me a wife,
She gave me trouble all my life,
Made me work in the cold rain and snow.
Rain and snow, rain and snow,
Made me work in the cold rain and snow.
  1. ^ "Vaughan Williams Memorial Library". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sing Out was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Campbell, Olive; Sharp, Cecil (1917). English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Putnam's. p. 214.