Cold blow and a rainy night

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Cold Blow and a Rainy Night

Roud 135

Version from James Beale

Collected by Cecil Sharp at Warehorne, Kent, 23rd Sep 1908.

  1. My hat is frozen to my head
    My body’s like a lump of lead
    My shoes are frozen to my feet
    Standing at your window
    Let me in, the soldier cried
    Cold blow and a rainy night
    Let me in the soldier cried
    I’ll never go back again O

  2. Down she came and let him in
    And then they went to bed again
    He kissed her lips and tickled her knee
    And soon he gained her favour
    Then she blessed the rainy night
    Cold blow and a rainy night
    Then she blessed the rainy night
    That ever she let him in O

  3. O lad, O lad, O marry me
    My father will give thee gold so free
    O no, O no, I’ll not marry
    So fare thee well for ever
    Then she cursed the rainy night
    Cold blow and a rainy night
    Then she cursed the rainy night
    That ever she let him in O

  4. Then he jumped out of bed
    he put his hat upon his head
    And she had lost her maidenhead
    Her mother heard the jingle
    Then she cursed the rainy night
    Cold blow and a rainy night
    Then she cursed the rainy night
    That ever she let him in O


This text is included in James Reeves' The Idiom of the People p96, but the place of collection is mistakenly given as "Wareham" instead of "Warehorne".