Song Lyrics Baez Joan - Gulf Winds    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> B>> Baez Joan Singer Lyrics [Baez Joan other resources]>> Gulf Winds Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Baez Joan Music Title/Track: Gulf Winds Theme ID: 3774 Album: N/A 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 foug Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Rider Pass By, Seabirds, Song of Bangladesh, Stephanies Room, Stewball, Still Waters At Night, Te Recuerdo Amanda, The Partisan, Time Is Passing Us By, To Bobby, Tumbleweed, Where Are You Now My Son?, Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee), Its All Over Now Baby Blue, Jackaroe, Angeline, Fifteen Months, Gabriel and Me, Heaven Help Us All, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Last, Lonely and Wretched, Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave), Maria Dolores, Milanese Waltz/Marie Flore, Outside the Nashville City Limits, Put Your Hand in the Hand, San Francisco Mabel Joy, The 33rd Of August, The Brand New Tennessee Waltz, The Hitchhikers Song, The Salt Of The Earth, Three Horses, Eleanor Rigby, I Pity the Poor Immigrant, Donna Donna, East Virginia, Henry Martin, House of the Rising Sun, John Riley, Little Moses, Mary Hamilton, Rake and Rambling Boy, Silver Dagger, All My Trails, Carry It On, Ghetto, Long Black Veil, No Expectations, One Day At A Time, Seven Bridges Road, Other Baez Joan song Lyrics A Stranger In My Place (307) (Kenny Rogers-Kin Lyrics A Stranger In My Place (3:07) (Kenny Rogers - Kin Lyrics All My Trials Lord Lyrics Amsterdam Lyrics Angeline Lyrics Asimbonanga Lyrics Blessed Are... Lyrics Blowin In The Wind Lyrics Diamonds And Rust Lyrics Edge Of Glory Lyrics Fifteen Month Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Bagaskara Katon Lyrics Bagatelle Lyrics Bagdad cafe Lyrics Baglieto Lyrics Baglioni Lyrics Baglioni Claudio Lyrics Claudio Baglioni Lyrics Baha Men Lyrics Bahamadia Lyrics Bailey Phillp Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy