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Guitar: Cold, Haily, Windy Night (Including lyrics and chords)

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2018 · Education

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For my last upload of 2018, I have chosen "Cold, Haily, Windy Night".
This is a tune we have been working on for our Friday night session music for which we play it in the key of E minor. 
However, when I tried singing it in that key I found it just too low for my voice, so I have raised it to G minor for this video.
It is another song for which I found the lyrics in the BBC Singing Together pamphlets I am working through courtesy of Joe Offer's Mudcat Café.
The following is found in the footnotes for the song in Singing Together:

Recorded by Martin Carthy on Landfall (Phillips, 1971). Also by Steeleye Span on Please To See The King (B&C, 1971)

On the sleeve of Landfall, Carthy notes:
Cold Haily Windy Night is based on the version collected by Baring-Gould in the South West of England. The tune comes from Johnson's Musical Museum, with a composite text. Although this version may not be very old, in its various parts the idea is as old as the hills, for it is to be found, among other places, in the Song of Songs: "Let me in my love, my dove, my undefiled, for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night."

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