Cold blow and a rainy night

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".