Cold and Raw the North Winds Blow
Cold and raw the north winds blow
Bleak in the morning early,
All the hills are covered with snow,
And winter's now come fairly.
Notes
Here's a version of the rhyme from The Real Mother Goose (1916):
Cold and Raw the North Wind Doth Blow
Cold and raw the north wind doth blow,
Bleak in the morning early;
All the hills are covered with snow,
And winter's now come fairly.
Told this way, it's reminiscent of The North Wind Doth Blow.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
The illustration is from Mother Goose, The Original Volland Edition (1915), edited and arranged by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Frederick Richardson (with some graphical editing by Mama Lisa). This rhyme can be found in The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (c. 1833). It can also be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.
Read by Allyson Hester of Athens, Georgia for Librevox.
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