The Blizzard (song)
It was released in early 1961 on the album Tall Tales and Short Tempers and also as a single,[1] peaking at number 4 on the Billboard country chart.The man's love for a woman named Mary Anne, to whose house he is destined, is also a key part of the story.When the horse becomes lame because to the harsh winter conditions, the traveler – who tells his story first-person – agrees to walk the remaining seven miles, encouraging Dan along the way.Although he becomes nearly frostbitten as the blizzard becomes more intense during their trek across the open prairie, he is determined to get himself and the horse to Mary Anne's home, where there is a barn with soft hay and, in the house, a supper that includes hot biscuits that he anticipates she is baking.At this point, the narrator changes to a third-person observer who muses that, as the frozen corpses are found (the traveler still had his hands in Dan's reins), had they finished their journey they would still be alive.