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Album : This Way Is My
Way
Written By
: Gene
MacLellan
Snowbird & I Just Fall in Love Again
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lyrics
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting
For its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings the song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers
That will bloom again in spring
[Verse 2]
When I was young
My heart was young then, too
Anything that it would tell me
That's the thing that I would do
But now I feel such emptiness within
For the thing that I want most in life's
The thing that I can't win
[Chorus]
Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
[Verse 3]
The breeze along the river seems to say
That he'll only break my heart again
Should I decide to stay
So, little snowbird
Take me with you when you go
To that land of gentle breezes
Where the peaceful waters flow
[Chorus]
Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
[Outro]
Yeah, if I could I know that I would Fl-y-y-y-y away with you
"Snowbird" is a song by the Canadian
songwriter Gene MacLellan.
Though it has been recorded by many performers (including Bing Crosby, Lynn Anderson, and Elvis Presley), it is best known through Anne Murray's 1969 recording, which—after
appearing as an album track in mid-1969—was eventually released as a single in
the summer of 1970. It was a No. 2 hit on Canada's pop chart and went to No. 1
on both the Canadian adult contemporary and country charts. The song reached
No. 8 on the U.S. pop singles chart,
spent six weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. adult
contemporary chart, and became a surprise Top 10 U.S. country
hit as well. It was certified as a gold single by the RIAA,
the first American Gold record ever awarded to a Canadian solo female artist. The
song peaked at No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2003 it was an inaugural
song inductee of the Canadian
Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Anne Murray and Gene MacLellan had met while both were regulars
on the CBC television
series Singalong Jubilee and
Murray recorded two of MacLellan's compositions, "Snowbird" and "Biding
My Time", for her first major label album release, This Way Is My
Way, in 1969. Murray would recall: "Gene told me he wrote
["Snowbird"] in twenty minutes while walking on a beach in PEI."
The theme and approach broadly resemble that of the earlier hits
"Message to Michael"
(a.k.a. "Kentucky Bluebird" in hit versions by Lou Johnson and Adam Faith) and "Yellow Bird" in
contrasting the narrator's being stranded in the place of their heartache to
the bird's ability to just up and fly away. "Snowbird" sold well over
a million copies and was recently picked as 19th on the 50 Tracks:
The Canadian Version list, a partially populist approach to
defining the most influential songs by Canadians.
"Snowbird" is a song by the Canadian
songwriter Gene MacLellan. Though it has been recorded by many performers
(including Bing Crosby, Lynn Anderson, and Elvis Presley), it is best known
through Anne Murray's 1969 recording, which—after appearing as an album track
in mid-1969—was eventually released as a single in the summer of 1970. It was a
No. 2 hit on Canada's pop chart and went to No. 1 on both the Canadian adult
contemporary and country charts. The song reached No. 8 on the U. S. pop singles chart, spent
six weeks at No. 1 on the U. S. adult contemporary chart, and became a surprise
Top 10 U. S. country hit as well. It was certified as a gold single by the
RIAA, the first American Gold record ever awarded to a Canadian solo female
artist. The song peaked at No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2003 it was an
inaugural song inductee of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Anne Murray
and Gene MacLellan had met while both were regulars on the CBC television
series Singalong Jubilee and Murray recorded two of MacLellan's compositions,
"Snowbird" and "Biding My Time", for her first major label
album release, This Way Is My Way, in 1969. Murray would recall: "Gene
told me he wrote ["Snowbird"] in twenty minutes while walking on a
beach in PEI." The theme and approach broadly resemble that of the earlier
hits "Message to Michael" (a.k.a. "Kentucky Bluebird" in
hit versions by Lou Johnson and Adam Faith) and "Yellow Bird" in
contrasting the narrator's being stranded in the place of their heartache to
the bird's ability to just up and fly away. "Snowbird" sold well over
a million copies and was recently picked as 19th on the 50 Tracks: The Canadian
Version list, a partially populist approach to defining the most influential
songs by Canadians.
Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born
June 20, 1945), known professionally as Anne Murray, is a Canadian
singer in pop, country, and adult contemporary
music whose albums have sold over 55 million copies worldwide
during her 40-year career.
Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach
No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record for one
of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). She is often cited
as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international
Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. She is also the first woman
and the first Canadian to win "Album of the Year" at the 1984 Country Music
Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A
Little Good News.
Murray has received four Grammys, a record 24 Junos, three
American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three
Canadian Country Music Association Awards. She has been inducted into the
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, The Canadian
Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Canadian
Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Country Music
Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville,
and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and on Canada's Walk of Fame
in Toronto.
In 2011, Billboard ranked
her 10th on their list of the 50 Biggest Adult Contemporary Artists
Ever.
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