"Whose woods these are…" set to "O Tannenbaum"?
Did anyone else have a College/High School english professor (teacher) introduce you that Robert Frost’s poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" is in the same meter as "Oh Christmas Tree". I can’t listen to the
song now without mentally injecting the poem!
Try it:
"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."