《Gulf Winds》歌词

歌曲： Gulf Winds

所属专辑：Gulf Winds

歌手： Joan Baez

时长： 10:33

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Artist：joan baez[00:00:00]

Songs Title：gulf winds[00:00:01]

It's only when the high winds blow that I wish my hair was long[00:00:26]

Sailing through the autumn leaves singing an ancient song[00:00:33]

Or falling in love in the streets at night at the edge of a local square[00:00:41]

It's only that I'm here tonight thinking I was there[00:00:48]

There are high winds on the pier tonight my soul departs from me[00:01:00]

Striding like Thalia's ghost south on the murky sea[00:01:09]

And into midnight's tapestry she fades ragged and wild[00:01:17]

Searching down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian child[00:01:24]

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon[00:01:37]

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew[00:01:47]

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low[00:01:53]

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico[00:01:59]

When I was young my eyes were wise my father was good to me[00:02:19]

Instead of having a flock of sons he had two other girls and me[00:02:26]

And if we had used our Spanish names here's the way they'd run[00:02:33]

Thalia Margarita and Juanita I'm the middle one [00:02:40]

The screen door kept the demons in as we moved from town to town[00:02:53]

It's hard to be a princess in the States when your skin is brown[00:03:00]

And mama smoothed my worried brow as I leaned on the kitchen door[00:03:08]

Why do you carry the weight she said of the world and maybe more [00:03:17]

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon[00:03:31]

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew[00:03:40]

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low[00:03:45]

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico[00:03:52]

My grandfathers were ministers and it came on down the line[00:04:12]

My father preached in his parents' church when he was ten years and nine[00:04:21]

And mama dressed in parishoners' clothes and didn't believe in hell[00:04:29]

Her daddy fought the DAR if he'd lived I'd have known him well[00:04:38]

They said go find a Sunday School we must have tried them all[00:04:49]

I never stole from the silver plate my sisters had more gall[00:04:56]

One preacher said sing out loud and clear it's the only life you've got[00:05:04]

And the next one said be good on earth you've another life at the feet of God[00:05:13]

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon[00:05:29]

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew[00:05:38]

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low[00:05:44]

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico[00:05:51]

My father turned down many a job just to give us something real[00:06:10]

It's hard to be a scientist in the States when you've got ideals[00:06:19]

And mama kept the budget book she kept the garden too[00:06:27]

Bought fish from the man on Thursday fed all of us and strangers too[00:06:36]

But time will pass and so alas will most of what we know[00:06:48]

Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's being told[00:06:57]

And I'll play ball with the underdog and sit with the child who's wrong[00:07:04]

Be still when the earth is silent and sing when my strength is gone[00:07:11]

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon[00:07:25]

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew[00:07:36]

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low[00:07:41]

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico[00:07:49]

Now father's going to India sometime in the fall[00:08:11]

They tried to stay together but you just can't do it all[00:08:20]

I'll think about him if he goes there's a little grey in his hair[00:08:28]

Though not much because he's Mexican they don't age they just prepare[00:08:37]

And if he goes to India I'll miss him most of all[00:08:50]

He'll see me in the mudlarks' face hear me in the beggar's call[00:08:59]

And mama will stay home I guess and worry if she did wrong[00:09:07]

And I'll say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my song[00:09:16]

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon[00:09:31]

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew[00:09:40]

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low[00:09:46]

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico[00:09:54]