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