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Artist/Band: Joan Baez
Lyrics for Song: Gulf Winds
Lyrics for Album: Complete A&m Recordings [2003]



It's only when the high winds blow that I wish my hair was long

Sailing through the autumn leaves singing an ancient song

Or falling in love in the streets at night at the edge of a local square

It's only that I'm here tonight thinking I was there



There are high winds on the pier tonight, my soul departs from me

Striding like Thalia's ghost south on the murky sea

And into midnight's tapestry she fades, ragged and wild

Searching down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian child



And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico



When I was young my eyes were wise, my father was good to me

Instead of having a flock of sons he had two other girls and me

And if we had used our Spanish names, here's the way they'd run

Thalia, Margarita and Juanita, I'm the middle one.



The screen door kept the demons in as we moved from town to town

It's hard to be a princess in the States when your skin is brown

And mama smoothed my worried brow as I leaned on the kitchen door

Why do you carry the weight, she said, of the world and maybe more?



And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico



My grandfathers were ministers and it came on down the line

My father preached in his parents' church when he was ten years and nine

And mama dressed in parishoners' clothes and didn't believe in hell

Her daddy fought the DAR, if he'd lived I'd have known him well



They said go find a Sunday School, we must have tried them all

I never stole from the silver plate, my sisters had more gall

One preacher said sing out loud and clear, it's the only life you've got

And the next one said be good on earth, you've another life at the feet of God



And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico



My father turned down many a job just to give us something real

It's hard to be a scientist in the States when you've got ideals

And mama kept the budget book, she kept the garden, too

Bought fish from the man on Thursday, fed all of us and strangers, too



But time will pass and so, alas, will most of what we know

Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's being told

And I'll play ball with the underdog and sit with the child who's wrong

Be still when the earth is silent and sing when my strength is gone



And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico



Now father's going to India sometime in the fall

They tried to stay together but you just can't do it all

I'll think about him if he goes, there's a little grey in his hair

Though not much because he's Mexican, they don't age, they just prepare



And if he goes to India I'll miss him most of all

He'll see me in the mudlarks' face, hear me in the beggar's call

And mama will stay home, I guess, and worry if she did wrong

And I'll say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my song



And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico


Album Lyrics: Complete A&m Recordings [2003]


Joan Baez
"Complete A&m Recordings [2003]"


1. (Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around
2. Forever Young
3. Gulf Winds
4. In The Quiet Morning
5. A Young Gypsy
6. Amazing Grace
7. Best Of Friends
8. Blue Sky
9. Caruso
10. Children And All That Jazz
11. De Colores
12. Gracias A La Vida
13. Guantanamera
14. I Dream Of Jeannie/danny Boy
15. Imagine
16. La Llorona
17. Less Than The Song
18. Llego Con Tres Heridas
19. Love Song To A Stranger
20. Myths
21. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
22. No Nos Moveran
23. Only Heaven Knows (Ah, The Sad Wind Blows)
24. Rainbow Road
25. Rider Pass By
26. Seabirds
27. Stephanie's Room
28. Stewball
29. Still Waters At Night
30. Suzanne
31. Sweeter For Me
32. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
33. Te Recuerdo Amanda
34. The Partisan
35. Time Is Passing Us By