Farewell He / Fare You Well Cold Winter
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge)
(CJS2/9/88)
- First Line
- O fare you well cold winter, and fare you well cold frost
- Performer
- White, Lucy / Hooper, Louie
- Date collected
- 28 Dec 1903
- Place
- England : Somerset : Hambridge
- Collector
- Sharp, Cecil J.
- Roud No
- 803 [Search for 803 in the current indexes]
- Alt Ref No
- FW 88 / FT 65
- Format
- Manuscript
- Type
- Song
- Subtype
- Src Contents
- Text
- Named Tune
- Child No
- Laws No
- Notes
-
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words p.88 / Folk Tunes p.65. Title 'Fare You Well Cold Winter' crossed out in the manuscript
- Author / Composer
- VWML Location
- Repository
- Clare College, Cambridge
- Printer / Publisher
- Pub Place
- Pub Date
- Level
- Item
- Volume
- Folk Words
- Assoc Source
- Date extant
Media
1 media item.
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Fare You Well Cold Winter
Farewell He
Fare you well cold winter, and fare you well cold frost
Nothing have I gained, but a false young man I've lost
For he has got another, with me he wouldn't agree
He's welcome to go with her, and share her company.
We'll be all smile tonight love,
We'll be all smile tonight
If my heart should break tomorrow
We'll be all smiles tonight.
The last time I did meet him 'twas down a shady grove,
He looked at me and smiled and handed me a rose
Do you think that I would take it! O, no, my love not I
Before I'd humble to my love I'd lay me down and die.
We'll be all smile, etc.
He wrote to me a letter to tell me he was sad
I wrote one back to him again and told him I was glad
I told him to keep his paper and I would keep my time
For I care no more for his false heart than he do care for mine
We'll be all smile, etc.
Lucy 'White & Louie Hooper, Hambridge. Dec. 23 1903.
(65)
Transcription
Show all of transcriptionFare You Well Cold Winter
Farewell He
Fare you well cold winter, and fare you well cold frost
Nothing have I gained, but a false young man I've lost
For he has got another, with me he wouldn't agree
He's welcome to go with her, and share her company.
We'll be all smile tonight love,
We'll be all smile tonight
If my heart should break tomorrow
We'll be all smiles tonight.
The last time I did meet him 'twas down a shady grove,
He looked at me and smiled and handed me a rose
Do you think that I would take it! O, no, my love not I
Before I'd humble to my love I'd lay me down and die.
We'll be all smile, etc.
He wrote to me a letter to tell me he was sad
I wrote one back to him again and told him I was glad
I told him to keep his paper and I would keep my time
For I care no more for his false heart than he do care for mine
We'll be all smile, etc.
Lucy 'White & Louie Hooper, Hambridge. Dec. 23 1903.
(65)
Relationships
- CJS2/9 Folk words collected by Cecil Sharp
- CJS2/9/88 Farewell He / Fare You Well Cold Winter (This record)