Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)

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"Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)"
Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered in Snow).jpg
Single by Laura Marling
from the album I Speak Because I Can
ReleasedDecember 11, 2009 (2009-12-11)
Recorded2008
Genre Folk
Length3:46
Label Virgin Records
Songwriter(s) Laura Marling
Laura Marling singles chronology
"Night Terror"
(2008)
"Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)"
(2009)
"Devil's Spoke"
(2010)

"Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)" is a single by Laura Marling. It was released on December 11, 2009 as the lead single from her second album I Speak Because I Can . The song peaked to number 133 on the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

Track listing

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)"3:46

Chart performance

Chart (2009)Peak
position
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) [1] 133

Release history

CountryRelease dateFormat(s)
United KingdomDecember 11, 2009 [2] Digital download

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References

  1. "Chart Log UK" (TXT). Zobbel.de. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  2. "Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) - Single by Laura Marling". Itunes.apple.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-18.