《Gulf Winds(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Gulf Winds (Album Version) - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)

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

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

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

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

[00:00:59] There are high winds on the pier tonight my soul departs from me

[00:01:08] Striding like Thalia's ghost south on the murky sea

[00:01:16] And into midnight's tapestry she fades ragged and wild

[00:01:23] Searching down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian child

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

[00:01:46] Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

[00:01:52] And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

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

[00:02:18] When I was young my eyes were wise my father was good to me

[00:02:25] Instead of having a flock of sons he had two other girls and me

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

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

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

[00:02:59] It's hard to be a princess in the States when your skin is brown

[00:03:07] And mama smoothed my worried brow as I leaned on the kitchen door

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

[00:03:30] And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon

[00:03:39] Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

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

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

[00:04:11] My grandfathers were ministers and it came on down the line

[00:04:20] My father preached in his parents' church when he was ten years and nine

[00:04:28] And mama dressed in parishoners' clothes and didn't believe in hell

[00:04:37] Her daddy fought the DAR if he'd lived I'd have known him well

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

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

[00:05:03] One preacher said sing out loud and clear it's the only life you've got

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

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

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

[00:05:43] And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low

[00:05:50] Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico

[00:06:09] My father turned down many a job just to give us something real

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

[00:06:25] And mama kept the budget book she kept the garden too

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

[00:06:47] But time will pass and so alas will most of what we know

[00:06:56] Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's being told

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

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

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

[00:07:35] Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew

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

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

[00:08:10] Now father's going to India sometime in the fall

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

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

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

[00:08:49] And if he goes to India I'll miss him most of all

[00:08:58] He'll see me in the mudlarks' face hear me in the beggar's call

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

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

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

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

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

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