The Pooh Connection

A. A. Milne must also have held the snow and all things wintry in as much esteem as I. The proof of this lies in The House at Pooh Corner, where the tubby little cub has made up a comforting little hum to hum to himself as it snows. He decides to teach the hum to Piglet, and they set out then to teach it to Eeyore as well. This is how it goes:

The more it snows

(Tiddely Pom),

The more it goes

(Tiddely Pom),

The more it goes

(Tiddely Pom),

On snowing.

And nobody knows,

(Tiddely Pom)

How cold my toes

(Tiddely Pom),

How cold my toes

(Tiddely Pom),

Are growing.

While on their way to visit Eeyore, Piglet becomes ever more covered with snow and suggests - quite timidly, “because he didn’t want Pooh to think he was Giving In” - that they return home to practice the hum a while. Pooh agrees that it is a very good idea, indeed, but that they must practice it outside, because “it’s a special Outdoor Song which Has To Be Sung In The Snow.”

I wonder if I know any Outdoors Hums for Snowy Weather.