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The Snow it Melts the Soonest

from Postcards from Godley Moor, Winter 2020​/​1 by Alula Down

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  • Postcards from Godley Moor, Autumn 2020 is a 7 track album, 36 minutes long, and the third in a series of 4 seasonal releases from Alula Down. The album is released as digital download only accompanied by a strictly limited edition of 50 7”x5” art cards. The art card sales include a free digital download of the album. The collection of 8 Winter Postcards are a combination of original poetry, text and artwork and are printed on 100% recycled, uncoated 350gsm unbleached card.

    The album tracks are a collage of local field recordings, traditional & new original songs, and semi-improvised instrumentals. The album was created during the Winter of 2020/1, between the cross quarter days of Samhain and Imbolc. This album will be followed by ‘Postcards’ for Spring (in May 2021), and was preceded by Postcards from Godley Moor over Summer and Autumn 2020.

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    Profits from the sale of the cards will go to Global Greengrants (www.greengrants.org/who-we-are/) supporting solutions for those whose lives are impacted by environmental harm and social injustice

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Traditional (Roud 3154), from the singing of Annie Briggs. With ice creaking and snow thawing (24/01), shrutti & voice.

lyrics

O the snow it melts the soonest
when the winds begin to sing
and the corn it ripens fastest
when the frosts are setting in
and when my true love tells me that
my face he’ll soon forget,
before we part, I’ll tell to him
he’ll be sure to follow it yet.

O the snow it melts the soonest
when the wind begins to sing
and the swallow skims without
a thought as long as it is spring,
but when spring goes, and winter blows
my love and you’ll be fain,
for all your pride, to follow me,
were it cross the stormy main.

O the snow it melts the soonest
when the wind begins to sing
and the bee that flew when summer shone
in winter will not sing,
and all the flowers in all the land
so brightly though they be,
the snow it melts the soonest
when my true love loves me.

So never tell me farewell here
no farewell I’ll receive,
and you can meet me at the stile,
and kiss and take your leave,
and I’ll stay here till the woodcock crows,
the martin takes the wing,
for the snow it melts the soonest,
when the wind begins to sing.

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from Postcards from Godley Moor, Winter 2020​/​1, released February 19, 2021

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