Drive the Cold Winter Away
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
The song was originally called "When Phoebus Addrest" and went to an<br> older air, apparently an ancestor of "Drive the Cold Winter Away".<br> The latter takes its name from the burden of a ballad by Henry Gossan,<br> written in the second quarter of the 17th century, who directed that<br> it be sung to "When Pheobus Addrest". Antiquarian William Chappell<br> thought the tune dated to the 16th century, but based this on one melody in<br> A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs (1567) that is only<br> similar in respects. The adapted air (as "Drive the Cold Winter Away")<br> appears in Playford's first English Dancing Master of 1651 and all<br> later editions (through the 18th and last in 1728), the 1666 and all<br> later editions of Playford's Musick's Delight on the Cithren,<br> Walsh's Dancing Master and both editions of<br> D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy. Numerous ballads were written to the<br> song in the latter 17th century, including a drinking song for Yuletide<br> called "All Hail to the Days" (listed also as "Drive the Cold Winter Away"<br> in the Christmas carol section.<br> It was printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859),<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909) and John Walsh's Complete Country<br> Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).<br>
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