Oh The Wind And Rain

from When The Music Ends by Jon Fletcher

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lyrics

There lived a lord in the north country (Oh the wind and rain)
And he had daughters one, two, three (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

Now a young man came a-courting there (Oh the wind and rain)
And he made his choice of the youngest fair (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

He gave the young girl a fine gold ring (Oh the wind and rain)
He didn't give her sister a single thing (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

Oh sister let us both go out (Oh the wind and rain)
To see those boats go sailing about (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

And as they walked down by the river's brim (Oh the wind and rain)
The elder pushed the younger in (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

Oh sister won't you lend a hand (Oh the wind and rain)
And you can have my house and land (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

I'll neither lend you hand nor glove (Oh the wind and rain)
But I will have your own true love (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

It's down she sank and away she swam (Oh the wind and rain)
She floated down to the miller's dam (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

Along the bank comes the miller's son (Oh the wind and rain)
Says father there swims a girl or a swan (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

The miller came out with his long fish hook (Oh the wind and rain)
And pulled the body from the brook (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

He laid her on the bank to dry (Oh the wind and rain)
When a fiddler fair came passing by (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

He found the body lying there (Oh the wind and rain)
And he made fiddle strings from her long brown hair (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

He made fiddle pegs from her finger bones (Oh the wind and rain)
And from her arm he made a bow (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

And he made a fiddle from her breast bone (Oh the wind and rain)
Whose sound would melt the heart of stone (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

Now he takes the fiddle, he takes the bow (Oh the wind and rain)
He plays it fast he plays it slow (Oh the dreadful wind and rain)

But the only tune that fiddle would play was Oh the wind and rain
The only tune that fiddle would play was Oh the dreadful wind and rain
Oh the dreadful wind and rain

credits

from When The Music Ends, released April 4, 2020
Jon Fletcher: vocal, guitar, harmonica, percussion
Colin Fletcher: double bass, vocal
Jane Griffiths: fiddle, vocal
Doug Lang: bodhran
Lisa Fitzgibbon, Ellie Jamison, Sharron Kraus, Barney Morse-Brown: vocals

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Dazzling fingerstyle guitar, gently soulful vocals and songs aimed straight at the heart: Jon Fletcher weaves strands of English folk, jazz, blues and acoustic pop into a compelling and original take on the troubadour tradition.

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