Out Of The Snow

Go away, go away, you cold north wind

Blowin' my muffler 'round and 'round

Your white powder blows coverin' up the icy ground

I'm a slippin' and a slidin' down this dead end stream

Like a sheep who is lost from the fold

I've been on the land and I've been on the sea

I ain't never seen a night so cold

Suddenly a face at the window

Looks like someone I might a seen before

Thought it musta been my imagination

When suddenly she opened up the door

"And I never expected to see you again

Must a been seven years ago

Now that you're here, why don't you come in

Don't stand outside in the snow"

She sat me down in that old rockin' chair

And she threw on another lump of coal

Said "what's a southern boy like you, doin' here

Where the winter gets so long and cold"

"My history's a short one to tell

I've been travelin' all these seven years

I followed the music and the money around

And that's what I'm doin' up here"

She said "I came up with my husband

He wanted to get away from Tennessee

He's up somewhere in the Rocky Mountains

But it just got to cold up there for me

And I never expected to see you again

Then again, you just never know

You better stay here until the weather clears

It's to cold to be out there in the snow"