The Snow Is On the Ground
From 2015 when we had a record-breaking 129 inches of snow for one winter
Except it isn’t, at least not yet. It’s pretty cold here in Central Massachusetts and we may see record low temps tonight.
“The Snow Is on the Ground” was collected from Eleazer Tillett by Anne and Frank Warner. This song conveys to me that special beauty that only winter can bring. In Tillett’s version, the second line reads “And the birds is all dropped from the trees”. Producer and arranger, Dave Mattacks and I decided to go back to the song titled “Remember the Poor” from the Forget Me Not Songster for the original lyric. Other changes made in the lyrics came from another version of the song performed by the New England-based quartet Nowell Sing We Clear. Click on the album cover to hear the song.
