White Winter Hymnal - cover by castille & castille

White Winter Hymnal_by The Fleet Foxes
Cover version by Chelsea and I..........
On a visit home a few months back, Chelsea brought this very odd little tune to my attention and wanted to record it as an exercise in 3-part harmony. Apparently my age keeps me well behind the curve regarding what's new in the music world....I'd never heard it before. As I listened to the lyrics, some distinctive images formed in my mind. With the artistic help of Vince (my brother) I think this video pretty well illustrates the lyrics of the song:

I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin in the snow
And I turned round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime

Robin Pecknold says he wrote "White Winter Hymnal" about friends who ditched him when he was in middle school.

Thanks Chelsea for permanently embedding this in my brain....and a great thanks to Vince for the fantastic artwork.

I like the following interpretation which I found on songmeanings.net:

"I think of this song as a little frame of a childhood memory - maybe of a five or six year old. He is with a bunch of children, maybe running after the older kids, who just look like a bunch of coats since they are so bundled up. He thinks in his child's mind that the scarves keep their heads from falling off. Then he looks behind him and his friend has fallen and hurt himself and there is bright red blood in the snow. Sometimes a memory like that sticks with you even though you can't remember anything else about it."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• white
• winter
• hymnal
• fleet
• foxes
• cover

[Ra121312]

Good job

[AllissonDiego29]

beautiful

[rtupin1956]

I am blown away by this video...I love the art work and the singing is just simply awesome....THANK YOU SO MUCH...I'm hooked!!!!!!

[IranWarToo]

Beautiful Song,,,,Great Recording You Kids,,,,Wishing All You Kids a Great Year Ahead,,,,Peace,,,,,,,,Dean.

[passingthrough321]

I don't think I can handle any more talent overflowing from the Castille Clan! Every part of this is so awesome! I have never heard of the song before either but...WOW!

[Djunisijevic]

5 stars indead!

[kardel100]

what a great job by all. 5 HUGE Stars!!!

[jugnutgut2]

this is wonderful in every way, how lucky you are to have a great vocalist right there in the family! any chance of Chelsea and Clint doing something together?

[KarenEng]

Beautiful rendition! Great video too! :)

[herbiesnerd]

This is wonderful Mike & Chelsea. Merry Xmas my friend!

Randy