“Easter Snow”

Description

The singer sees a beautiful girl and asks her to come home with him to "Easter Snow." He says she will see foxhunters and other exciting things. She tells him that she is pledged to another who lives far from Easter Snow

Notes

There is a lot going on behind the scenes of this commonplace (even banal) text. "Easter Snow" or its variants is conceded to be a folk variant of "Estersnoew," a region in Roscommon. This in turn is a wearing-down of a Gaelic name -- but Kennedy (based on Petrie Coll) gives the Gaelic as "Iseart Nuadhain," while Henry/Huntington/Herrmann list the title in Petrie/Stanford as "Diseart Nuadhain, no Sneachta Casga." In any event, it appears that there is a Gaelic tune and a Gaelic name behind the song. - RBW

Recordings

• Brigid Tunney, "Easter Snow" (on IRTunneyFamily01)

References

1. Kennedy 128, "Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. SHenry H66, pp. 369-370, "Wester Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Creighton-Maritime, p. 43, "The Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
4. Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 29-30, "Easter Snow" (1 text, 1 tune)
5. OBoyle 10, "Estersnowe" (1 text, 1 tune)
6. Roud #2122
7. BI, HHH066