The Snow It Melts the Soonest Choral single edition SSAA
- Music: traditional, Great Britain
- Arrangement: Winnie Brückner
- Lyrics: traditional, Great Britain
- Voicing: unaccompanied, 4-part
- Component: Choral Sheet From: Silent Night
The snow will melt when the wind begins to sing. A bee cannot sting in winter, the swallow will not fly and if you now say goodbye to me, I still know that you will return again because the snow will melt. This arrangement of the British folk song is exceptional in its rhythmical diversity vecause 6/8 and 3/4 time alternate, that is, in verse 4 they even run parallel whereby a certain tension results.