conuly

I pick up songs because they sound nice. Unfortunately, me being me, I try to gather all the verses up, even if the various versions don't mesh well together. Sometimes two verses are saying the exact same thing, or one more or less contradicts another, but they both sound nice.

So, here's one I like, just my favorite three verses, and you can do what you want with it. I used to sing it to Evangeline when she was a baby. I hadn't just been dumped or anything, but it was winter and cold and gray and dreary, so singing about goodbye to winter and frost seemed apropos :)

It's been gray enough for May lately I keep remembering winter then. I guess May showers and chills will bring June flowers?

It's adieu to cold winter, good-bye to cold frost
I'll cheer up in spirits for the beau that I have lost
And I wish to him a fortune, and myself a better grace
And I'll catch another in a fair and closer place

If he's gone, let him go, let him sink or let him swim
If he won't care for me, I'm sure I don't for him
And I'll sing and be happy like the bird up in the tree (or "Why should I care, I'm so happy young and free)
And I can get another boy much handsomer than he.

He wrote me a letter, to say that he was sad
I wrote him an answer and said that I was glad
Since he has another girl I hope they can agree
I'll never take him back now, let him go and farewell he