# Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

- Music: Roger Quilter (died 1953)
- Words: William Shakespeare (died 1616)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/31421012

## The words

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so  
unkind As man’s ingratitude;  
Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not  
seen, Although thy breath be rude,  
although thy breath be rude.  
Heighho! sing heighho! unto the green holly:  
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere  
folly: Then heigh ho! the holly!  
This life, this life is most jolly.  
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,  
That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot:  
Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not  
so sharp As friend remembered not,  
as friend remembered not.  
Heighho! sing heighho! unto the green holly:  
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere  
folly: Then heighho! the holly!  
This life, this life is most jolly,  
most jolly.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).