[Intro]
Am C G/B Am
[Verse]
C G/B Am
The snows, they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
C D G/B D Am
The corn, it ripens fastest when the frosts are settlin' in
C D G/B Am
And when a lover tells me that my face she'll soon forget
F Am G Am
Before we part, I'll wage a croon, she's bound to follow yet
[Verse]
C G/B Am
The snows, they melt the soonest when the wind begins to sing
C D G/B D Am
The swallow flies without a thought as long as it is spring
C D G/B
But when spring goes and winter blows, my love, she will be fain
Am F Am G Am
For all her pride to follow me, across the raging main
[Verse]
C G/B Am
The snows, they melt the soonest when the wind begins to sing
C D G/B D Am
The bee that flew when summer shone, in winter cannot sting
C D G/B
I've seen a lover's anger melt between the night and the morn
Am F Am G Am
But it's surely not a harder thing to melt a woman's scorn
[Instrumental]
Am C G/B Am
Am C D G/B D
Am C D G/B
Am F Am G Am
[Verse]
C G/B Am
So don't you bid me farewell, no farewell I'll receive
C D G/B D Am
For you will lie with me, my love, then kiss and take your leave
C D G/B
I'll wait here 'til the moorcock calls, and the martin takes the wing
Am F Am G Am
For the snows, they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
[Verse]
C G/B Am
The snows, they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
C D G/B D Am
The corn, it ripens fastest when the frosts are settlin' in
C D G/B Am
And when a lover tells me that my face she'll soon forget
F Am G Am
Before we part, I'll wage a croon, she's bound to follow yet