It's only when the high winds blow that I my hair was long Sailing the autumn leaves singin' an ancient song Or falling in love in the streets at night at the edge of a square It's only that I'm here tonight I was there
There's high winds on the pier tonight, my soul from me Striding like Ghost south on the murky sea And midnight's tapestry she fades, ragged and wild down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian child
So Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that shine in the moon me the horizon where the dawn will break anew And cool me here on this pier, where the heron are flying low Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of
When I was young my eyes wise, my father was good to me of having a flock of sons he had two other girls and me And if we'd our Spanish names, here's the way they'd run Thalia, Margarita and Juanita, I'm the one
The screen door the Demons in as we moved from town to town It's hard to be a princess in the States your skin is brown And Mama my worried brow, as I leaned on the kitchen door "Why do you the weight", she said "Of the and maybe more"
Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that shine in the moon Show me the where the dawn will break anew And cool me here on this lonely pier, where the heron are low Echo the songs my knew in the towns of Mexico
My grandfathers were ministers and it came on the line My Father in his parents' church When he was ten and nine And Mama dressed in parishioners' clothes and believe in Hell Her daddy fought the DAR, if he'd lived, I'd known him well
They said, "Go find a Sunday School", we must have tried all I never stole from the plate, my sisters had more gall One preacher said, "Sing out loud and clear, it's the only you've got And the one said, "Be good on earth You've another life at the of God"
And Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that in the crescent moon Show me the horizon the dawn will break anew And cool me here on this lonely pier, the heron are flying low Echo the my fathers knew in the towns of Mexico
My father turned down many a job just to give us real It's to be a scientist in the States when you've got ideals And Mama kept the budget book, and she kept the too Bought from the man on Thursdays, fed all of us and strangers too
But time will pass and so, alas, will most of what we 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 Be still when the earth is silent and sing when my is gone
So Gulf bring me flying fish, that shine in the crescent moon Show me the horizon where the dawn break anew And cool me here on this lonely pier, the heron are flying low Echo the songs my knew in the towns of Mexico
Now Father's going to India, in the fall They tried to together but you just can't do it all I'll about him if he goes, there's a little gray in his hair Though not much 'cause he's Mexican, they don't age, they just
And if he goes to India, I'll miss him of all He'll see me in the mudlarks' face, hear me in the beggar's And Mama will home, I guess, and worry if she did wrong And I'll say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my
And Gulf winds bring me fish, that shine in the crescent moon me the horizon where the dawn will break anew And cool me here on this lonely pier, where the are flying low Echo the songs my father in the towns of Mexico