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Track: Winter Boy
Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Album: Little Wheel Spin And Spin

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Name: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Spotify Genres: native american music, folk rock, folk
Followers: 111,629
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Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist, born February 20, 1941 in Stoneham, Mass. At times she has self-identified as Cree and stated she was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, to an indigenous family, but averred that her Canadian birth certificate from back then was lost or destroyed. She came under fire in late 2023 for allegedly manufacturing this indigenous background and hiding her Massachusetts birth to white parents of Italian ancestry, according to a CBC documentary that found her original 1941 U.S. birth certificate. Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada appointment was terminated by an ordinance signed by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on January 3, 2025; no reason was given for the termination. She came up in the Greenwich Village scene in New York in the 1960s and her music has generally been categorized as folk and traditional music (although she did record one mostly-country album in Nashville: "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again".) She won an Oscar in the mid-1980s for co-writing the hit "Up Where We Belong" for the "Officer And A Gentleman" film soundtrack.

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Release: Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin And Spin
Year: 1966
Genres: Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Folk

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LYRICS

Winter boy
Born in a snowy day
Came to me in a rainy afternoon
And lived in summer-long
Love I trusted far too well
Gone away in winters spell
Had broke my heart
And left me all alone
And looking for a home
To rest my weary heart
For just a while
And I found that in the smile
Of a boy
A little boy with midnight in his hair
And promise in his eyes
Of days and nights there yet to be
Days and nights he'd clinged to me
For I am winters lady
And he is winters child
Though there be summers here
And the smell of pine comes
Crying to my heart
Still my joy and my security
Will I decide the boy
Of blessed purity
The little boy with midnight
In his hair
And diamonds in his eyes
Diamonds made of trust and love for me
And gleaming at me all the afternoon