Rain and Snow

Some sources for lyrics that appear in some later versions may be from Dock Boggs's 1927 song "Sugar Baby" (Roud 5731),[1] another lament of a henpecked husband, which may have contributed a line about "red apple juice".

[2][5] Earlier possible precursors include a series of broadside ballads on the general subject of "Woeful Marriage"; one frequently reprinted nineteenth-century example begins with the words "On Monday night I married a wife", (Roud 1692).

[2] Unlike Chandler's recording, in the Dead's version of the lyrics the husband generally laments his mistreatment at his greedy wife's hands, but does not kill her.

[8] The song's popularity grew out of the Old Timey tradition, became part of the bluegrass music repertoire, and was recorded by Bill Monroe and also by the Del McCoury Band.

[9] Other performers who have recorded the song include Peter Rowan with Tony Rice (on the Quartet album),[10] Sam Amidon, Pentangle,[11] Molly Tuttle,[12] Rose Laughlin, Betsy Rutherford[13][14] and the Be Good Tanyas.