Anne Murray Snowbird LIVE, 1996

Anne Murray Snowbird LIVE, 1996 Snowbird was the first American Gold record ever awarded to a Canadian solo female artist. Murray would recall: Gene told me he wrote it in twenty minutes while walking on a beach on Prince Edward Island. 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 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 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 The breeze along the river seems to say That he ll only break my he