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Four Strong Winds 🇨🇦 Ian & Sylvia [E]
Four Strong Winds 🇨🇦 Ian & Sylvia

I grew up on the Canadian border and listened to CFRB and CHCH. I also spent one summer living there.

This song hails from my teenage years. It tells a story that resonated with my inner longing... still does. Odd how some songs speak to what one can't even voice.

Years later I lived in the open plains and have resided in Montana, just south of Alberta, for 14 years. It reminds me most of Kansas, though, where I fled and where eventually I had to leave and move on.



Lyrics (written 1963}

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change, come what may
But our good times are all gone
And I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
I got some friends that I can go to working for
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I asked you one more time
But we've been through that a hundred times or more

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change, come what may
But our good times are all gone
And I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are goin' good
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare
But by then it would be winter
There ain't too much for you to do
And those winds sure can blow cold way out there

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change, come what may
But our good times are all gone
And I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Songwriter: Ian Tyson (1933-2022)
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