SNOWS (THEY MELT THE SOONEST), THE
Created on 30/10/2009Latest update on 19/06/2025
Artist: Archie Fisher
Author: traditional
Label: Xtra
Year: 1968
According to A.L. Lloyd we owe this to a pioneer collector of North-Eastern song, the soap boiler and lively Radical agitator Thomas Doubleday, who contributed it to Blackwood's Magazine in 1821. He got the melody from a Newcastle street singer. In Northhumbrian Minstrelsy (1882) the tune is given as My Love Is Newly Listed.
Covers:
- 1971:
Anne Briggs [as The Snow It Melts The Soonest]
- 1972:
Pentangle [as The Snows]
- 1976:
Horslips [as The Snow That Melts The Soonest]
- 1978:
Fureys & Davey Arthur [as The Snows]
- 1978:
Dick Gaughan [on Handful Of Earth]
- 1982:
- 1998:
- 2000:
- 2004:
James Yorkston [as The Snow It Melts The Soonest]
- 2005:
- 2006:
- 2009:
Sting [on If On A Winter's Night as The Snow It Melts The Soonest]
- 2011:
Jon Boden [idem]
- 2024:
Unthanks [idem]
