"Rain and Snow", also known as "Cold Rain and Snow", is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad. The song first appeared in print in Maud Karpeles and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, which relates that it was collected from Mrs. Tom Rice in Big Laurel, North Carolina in 1916. The melody is pentatonic. Karpeles and Sharp's version collected only a single verse. Roud Folk Song Index as #3634. The tune is a Dorian mode tune similar to "Reuben's Train". Some bluegrass and country performers sing a major mode version that is very close to "Reuben's Train". The version shown here is from Cecil Sharp's collection. This is part of a family of songs about abused husbands that includes "Devilish Mary", "Trouble", "Chilly Winds" and others. It shares some floater verses that appear in other songs. It was recorded by the Grateful Dead on their first album The Grateful Dead (1967). In their version of the lyrics the husband generally laments his mistreatment at his greedy wife's hands, but does not kill her. The lyrics from the Grateful Dead's version were adapted from an earlier recording by Obray Ramsey. Towards the end of his life, Benjamin Britten orchestrated the one-verse 1917 version of the song; this appears as the first section "Lord I married me a wife" of his Eight Folk Song Arrangements (1976). The song became a part of the bluegrass music tradition and was recorded by Bill Monroe and also by the Del McCoury Band. Other performers who have recorded the song include Peter Rowan with Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Sam Amidon, Rose Laughlin, Betsy Rutherford and the Be Good Tanyas.