Released: October 21, 2009
Songwriter: Wilhelm Müller Franz Schubert
Producer: Robert Sadin
[Verse]
In the snow there
Stands a hurdy gurdy man
With his frozen fingers
Plays as best he can
Barefoot on the ice
He shuffles to and fro
And his empty plate
It only fills with snow
No one wants to hear
His hurdy gurdy song
Hungry dogs surround him
And before too long
He will fall asleep
And then before too long
He'll just let it happen
Happen come what may
Play his hurdy gurdy
Until his dying day
[Outro]
Watching you, old man
I see myself in you
One day I will play
This hurdy gurdy too
In the snow there
Stands a hurdy gurdy man
With his frozen fingers
Plays as best he can
Barefoot on the ice
He shuffles to and fro
And his empty plate
It only fills with snow
No one wants to hear
His hurdy gurdy song
Hungry dogs surround him
And before too long
He will fall asleep
And then before too long
He'll just let it happen
Happen come what may
Play his hurdy gurdy
Until his dying day
[Outro]
Watching you, old man
I see myself in you
One day I will play
This hurdy gurdy too
more tracks from the album
If on a Winter’s Night...
- The Hounds of Winter
- Bethlehem Down
- The Coventry Carol
- You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
- Hurdy Gurdy Man
- Lullaby for an Anxious Child
- Cherry Tree Carol
- Balulalow
- Now Winter Comes Slowly
- The Burning Babe
- Cold Song
- Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
- Christmas at Sea
- The Snow It Melts the Soonest
- There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
- Soul Cake
- Gabriel’s Message
- Blake’s Cradle Song
From the album
- If on a Winter’s Night... (2009)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues