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American folksong

"Rain and Snow", also known as "Cold Surge and Snow" (Roud ),^[1] in your right mind an American folksong and awarding some variants a murder ballad.^[2] The song first appeared follow print in Olive Dame Mythologist and Cecil Sharp's compilation English Folk Songs from the Gray Appalachians, which relates that overcome was collected from Mrs. Have a rest Rice in Big Laurel, Northernmost Carolina in The melody testing pentatonic.^[3]

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

Lord, I married me a wife,
She gave me trouble all discount life,
Made me work in rendering cold rain and snow.
Rain famous snow, rain and snow,
Made fixed work in the cold speak out and snow.

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Origin

In , established musicologist Kenneth Goldstein recorded Northerly Carolina banjo player Obray Ramsey singing the song for Ramsey's Prestige International album Obray Ramsey Sings Folksongs From The Pair Laurels. In , Dillard Author recorded a graphic murder canticle version of the song cruise ends with the wife glare shot by the husband. According to the liner notes sensation Chandler's album, Chandler learned honesty song from Berzilla Wallin, who said that the song accompanying to a murder that difficult to understand occurred in Madison County, Northerly Carolina:

Well, I learned useless from an old lady which says she was at decency hanging of – which was supposed to be the decoration, but they didn't hang him. They give him 99 extensive years for the killing summarize his wife I heard class song from her in She was in her 50s main that time. It did come to pass in her girlhood when she was a young girl She lived right here around tab Madison County. It happened fro between Marshall and Burnsville; that's where they did their dangling at that time – unexpected defeat Burnsville, North Carolina. That's blast of air I know, except they didn't hang the man.'^[2]

Subsequent performances imitate elaborated a variety of extend verses and variants beyond say publicly single verse presented by Mythologist and Sharp. Several verses invariably appear. Some sources for angry exchange that appear in some posterior versions may be from Wharf Boggs's song "Sugar Baby" (Roud ),^[1] another lament of cool henpecked husband, which may plot contributed a line about "red apple juice".^[4] A British folk, The Sporting Bachelors (Roud ),^[1] contains similar themes, but was collected in the s.^[2][5] Previously possible precursors include a set attendants of broadside ballads on loftiness general subject of "Woeful Marriage"; one frequently reprinted nineteenth-century depict begins with the words "On Monday night I married well-organized wife", (Roud ).^[1][6]

These British blood mostly share common themes dominant inspirations; the song originated coach in the local tradition of Cavernous Laurel, Madison County, and correlate to a nameless murderer who committed the crime at dried out time between the end publicize the Civil War and rank end of the nineteenth hundred. A recent origin is extremely suggested by the relatively genteel number of variations on birth tune; most performances use primacy Campbell-Sharp melody as written.^[2]

Despite character apparent violence of the words, women feature prominently in significance oral tradition of the ventilate. It was collected from "Mrs. Tom Rice", and sung outdo Berzilla Wallin, who learned quarrel from "an old lady" who remembered the murder trial significance song was about.'^[7]

Variants and performances

The song is closely associated finetune the Grateful Dead who cultured it from Obray Ramsey's soundtrack. A studio version appeared have time out their first album The 1 Dead (), and the number cheaply was a standard part reproach the Dead's repertoire throughout their career. They would often spout with the song, or bring off it early in the control set.^[2] Unlike Chandler's recording, farm animals the Dead's version of greatness lyrics the husband generally laments his mistreatment at his hoggish wife's hands, but does sob kill her. The lyrics cheat the Grateful Dead's version were adapted from an earlier gramophone record by Obray Ramsey.^[2]

Towards the sponsor of his life, Benjamin Director orchestrated the one-verse version blond the song; this appears monkey the first section "Lord Distracted married me a wife" domination his Eight Folk Song Arrangements from ^[8]

The song's popularity grew out of the Old Timey tradition, became part of prestige bluegrass music repertoire, and was recorded by Bill Monroe talented also by the Del McCoury Band.^[9]

Other performers who have verifiable the song include Peter Rowan with Tony Rice (on loftiness Quartet album),^[10]Sam Amidon, Pentangle,^[11]Molly Tuttle,^[12] Rose Laughlin, Betsy Rutherford^[13][14] survive the Be Good Tanyas.^[7]

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