"A Winter's Tale" is a song performed by David Essex on the 1983 album The Whisper.
[1] "A Winter's Tale" was written by Mike Batt and Tim Rice about a day in the life of a favoured locomotive in late 1982 in response to a request from Essex.
[4] Some time after the song's release, Tim Rice wrote an additional, third verse.
[5] The Moody Blues included the song on their last album December (2003) "A Winter's Tale" was used to open the musical All the Fun of the Fair, launched in 2008, in which it was performed by Louise English.
[6] A 2008 article by Asian News International saw "A Winter's Tale" placed as the fourth worst Christmas song.