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In 1965, Dillard Chandler recorded a graphic murder ballad version of the song that ends with the wife being shot by the husband. According to the liner notes on Chandler's album, Chandler learned the song from Berzilla Wallin, who said that the song related to a murder that had occurred in Madison County, North Carolina:

Subsequent performances have elaborated a variety of additional verses and variants beyond the single verse presented by Campbell and Sharp. Several verses consistently appear. Some sources for lyrics that appear in some later versions may be from Dock Boggs's 1927 song "Sugar Baby" (Roud 5731),^[1] another lament of a henpecked husband, which may have contributed a line about "red apple juice".^[4] A British folksong, The Sporting Bachelors (Roud 5556),^[1] contains similar themes, but was collected in the 1950s.^[3]^[5] Earlier possible precursors include a series of broadside ballads on the general subject of "Woeful Marriage"; one frequently reprinted nineteenth-century example begins with the words "On Monday night I married a wife", (Roud 1692).^[1]^[6]

These British antecedents mostly share common themes and inspirations; the song originated in the local tradition of Big Laurel, Madison County, and relate to a nameless murderer who committed the crime at some time between the end of the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century. A recent origin is also suggested by the relatively limited number of variations on the tune; most performances use the Campbell-Sharp melody as written.^[3]

Despite the apparent violence of the lyrics, women feature prominently in the oral tradition of the song. It was collected from "Mrs. Tom Rice", and sung by Berzilla Wallin, who learned it from "an old lady" who remembered the murder trial the song was about.'^[14]

Variants and performances

The song is closely associated with the Grateful Dead; a studio version appeared on their first album The Grateful Dead (1967), and the song was a standard part of the Dead's repertoire throughout their career. They would often open with the song, or perform it early in the first set.^[3] Unlike Chandler's recording, in the Dead's version of the lyrics the husband generally laments his mistreatment at his greedy wife's hands, but does not kill her. The lyrics from the Grateful Dead's version were adapted from an earlier recording by Obray Ramsey.^[3]

Towards the end of his life, Benjamin Britten orchestrated the one-verse 1917 version of the song; this appears as the first section "Lord I married me a wife" of his Eight Folk Song Arrangements from 1976.^[7]

The song became a part of the bluegrass music tradition, and was recorded by Bill Monroe and also by the Del McCoury Band.^[8]

Other performers who have recorded the song include Peter Rowan with Tony Rice (on the Quartet album),^[9] Sam Amidon, Pentangle^[10], Rose Laughlin, Betsy Rutherford^[11]^[12] and the Be Good Tanyas.^[13]

References

1. ^¹²³⁴{{cite web | url=http://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/3634 | title=Vaughan Williams Memorial Library | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
2. ^{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/englishfolksongs00camp#page/214/mode/2up/search/rain+and+snow | title=English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians | publisher=Putnam's |author1=Campbell, Olive |author2=Sharp, Cecil | year=1917 | pages=214}}
3. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite web | url=http://singout.org/2012/09/10/cold-rain-and-snow-introduction/ | title=Cold Rain and Snow | work=Sing Out! | date=September 10, 2012 | accessdate=January 13, 2019 | author=Blackman, Patrick}}
4. ^{{cite AV media | title=Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings | publisher=Revenant Records | date=1927 | people=Dock Boggs; Greil Marcus, liner notes | medium=Phonorecord}}
5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5513 | title=Sporting Bachelors | publisher=mudcat.org | accessdate=November 25, 2015 | author=Anon.}}
6. ^{{cite web | url=http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/title/Woeful%20marriage | title=Allegro Catalogue of Ballads | publisher=Bodleian Library | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
7. ^{{cite AV media | url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.557222&catNum=557222&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English | title=BRITTEN: Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 2 (English Song, Vol. 13) | publisher=Naxos | date=July 2005 | people=Benjamin Britten, composer; Keith Anderson, liner notes | medium=CD}}
8. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7948 | title=Cold Rain and Snow | work=Roger McGuinn's Folk Den | date=August 1, 2015 | accessdate=November 25, 2015 | author=McGuinn, Roger}}
9. ^and Molly Tuttle, who created her own version of the final verse.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}{{cite web | title = Peter Rowan Discography | url = http://www.peter-rowan.com/discog.html | accessdate = 2016-06-25 }}
10. ^Pentangle. Reflection. Transatlantic (UK) / Reprise (US), 1971
11. ^{{cite web | title = Rain and Snow by Betsy Rutherford - YouTube | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imItrFyHeUM | accessdate = 2016-10-22 }}
12. ^{{cite web | title = Betsy Rutherford-Traditional Country Music| website = Cornbread, Molasses & Sassafras Tea - Folk and Vernacular Music | url = https://longplayingrecords.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/betsy-rutherford-traditional-country-music/ | accessdate = 2016-10-22 }}
13. ^¹{{cite web | url=http://singout.org/2012/09/14/i-aint-gonna-be-treated-this-way/ | title=I ain’t gonna be treated this way… "Rain and Snow," Part 2 | work=Sing Out! | date=September 14, 2012 | accessdate=November 25, 2015 | author=Blackman, Patrick}}

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