Snowbird

A rare glimpse of the sun at the top of a ridge 

I hiked on a snowy day last winter.

Snowbird is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Gene MacLellan. He recorded the song himself, but its most famous renditions may be those by Anne Murray and Crystal Gayle. MacLellan was born in the 1930s and sadly committed suicide in Prince Edward Island in 1995. All of these are sung at a fairly fast tempo, although Crystal Gayle's is slightly slower than either Gene's or Anne's. 

Gene MacLellan's daughter Catherine MacLellan is also a singer-songwriter. She has recorded a version of the song as well, much more recently, at a slower tempo. This slower version seems to capture the poignant heart of the song in a deeply moving way that the faster tempo versions obscured with more lighthearted musical features.