The Snow It Melts the Soonest

Oh, the snow it melts the soonest when the wind begins to sing

And, the corn it ripens fastest when the frost is setting in

And, when a woman tells me that me face she'll soon forget

Before we part I'd would a croon (crown) she's fain to follow it yet

Oh, 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

Ah, but when spring goes and winters snows me love and ye'll be fain

With all your pride to follow me across the stormy main

Oh, the snow it melts the soonest when the wind begins to sing

And, the bee that flew when summer shone in winter cannot sting

And, I've seen a woman's anger melt between the night and the morn

And, it's surely not a harder thing to tame a woman's scorn

So don't give your farewells here, no farewell I'll receive

And you will set me to the bridge and kiss and take your leave

And I will wait 'til the woodcock comes and the martin takes to wing

Since the snow it melts the soonest when the wind begins to sing