The snows they melt the soonest when the wind begins to sing
The corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are settling in
And when a young man tells me that my face he'll soon forget
Before we part, I'll wage a crown, he's fain to follow yet

And the snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
And the swallows fly without any thought as long as it is spring
And when spring goes, and winter blows, my love, then you'll be free
For all your pride, to follow me across the raging main

And the snows they melt the soonest when the wind begins to sing
And the bee that flew when summer shone, in winter cannot sting
I've seen the young man's anger melt between the night and the morn
So it's surely not a harder thing to melt a young man's scorn

So don't you bid me farewell here - no farewell I'll receive
For you will lay with me my love and kiss then take your
And I'll wait here till the moorcock calls, and the martin takes the wing
For the snows the melt the soonest, when the wind begins to sing.