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One of the many thinly disguised folk songs about outdoor sex. Melissa had attributed the herbal setting to poetic license until she wound up in a field of it in Medusa, New York. "Cold Winter" is in Playford, but we found it on the excellent Horslips record of the same name.

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O the summer time has come, and the trees are sweetly blooming
and the wild mountain thyme grows among the purple heather

Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together,
To pull wild mountain thyme
All across the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower by yon crystal flowing fountain
And on it I shall pile all the flowers of the mountain

Will you go …

If my true love will not go, then I'll surely find another
where the wild mountain thyme grows among the blooming heather

Will you go …

I will build my love a shelter by yon clear mountain stream
And my love shall be the fairest that the summer sun has seen.

Will you go …

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from Black​-​edged Visiting Card, released December 1, 1992
Includes Drive the Cold Winter Away

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Broadside Electric Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Broadside Electric is a five-piece electric folk band from Philadelphia, PA (US). They have earned a reputation for thoroughly original arrangements and painstaking research into traditional English, Celtic and Eastern European music. Broadside Electric has been at turns called “Pennsylvania’s answer to Steeleye Span” and “folk music’s answer to death metal.” ... more

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